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18 mar 2009 · Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873) was one of the leading British geologists, who did much work on the Lower Palaeozoic stratigraphy. He was professor of geology at Cambridge and was an Anglican clergyman ...
Adam Sedgwick (22 mars 1785 – 27 janvier 1873), géologue britannique, est un des fondateurs de la géologie moderne. Il a étudié les couches géologiques composant le Dévonien puis plus tard celles du Cambrien .
19 ago 2017 · Adam Sedgwick was one of the leading English geologists in the early nineteenth century. This biography is aimed at the general reader who has an interest in nineteenth century history, with particular reference to the development of modern science (particularly geology), the battle between faith and science, the modernisation of university education, and the changing role of the church.
22 mar 2016 · Adam Sedgwick, an English geologist, was born Mar. 22, 1785. In 1831, Sedgwick and an older colleague, Roderick Murchison, decided to investigate the geological formations of Wales, hoping to discover systems that underlay the Old Red Sandstone of western England, which was the oldest rock formation known to English geologists.
Adam Sedgwick Nació en Dent, Yorkshire, hijo de un vicario anglicano. Estudió matemáticas y teología en el Trinity College de Cambridge, del que se convirtió en profesor desde 1818 hasta su muerte. Junto a William Buckland fue, en los años 20, el principal defensores de las teorías diluvistas, de las que se retractó en 1831.
Reverend Adam Sedgwick. 1785-1873. British geologist who first established the existence of the Cambrian period of geologic time. One of Britain's elite geologists, the Reverend Sedgewick was the first to define the Cambrian period using fossil evidence unique to that period of time. He was also heavily involved in "The Great Devonian ...
