“I have read your book with more pain than pleasure. Parts of it I admired greatly; parts I laughed at till my sides were almost sore; other parts I read with absolute sorrow, because I think them utterly false and grievously mischievous.”

About Adam Sedgwick

Geologist • British

Adam Sedgwick was a pioneering British geologist and Anglican priest, renowned as one of the founders of modern geology. He proposed the Devonian period and the Cambrian period, based on his stratigraphic research in...