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Discovering Dinosaurs Valerie Wilding

Discovering Dinosaurs By Valerie Wilding

Discovering Dinosaurs by Valerie Wilding


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Having devoted his life to unearthing fossils and the discovery of Iguanodon, Gideon Mantell was forced to sell his fossils and was never credited for his achievements; whilst Richard Owen climbed to the top of the scientific establishment by falsely claiming the work of others as his own.

Discovering Dinosaurs Summary

Discovering Dinosaurs by Valerie Wilding

Gideon Mantell - the hard-working doctor of humble birth who devotes his life to unearthing fossils around his home town of Lewes. His most famous find is a skeleton which he names Iguanodon. Facing bankruptcy and the debtors prison, he is forced to sell his 25-year-old fossil collection. After an accident leaves him in severe pain, he dies of opium overdose, not credited in his lifetime for his achievements. Richard Owen - an anatomist with ambition. Climbs to the top of the scientific establishment by claiming the work of Mantell and others as his own. Names 'dinosaurs' in a fossil report based on Mantell's findings and is asked to provide models for the Crystal Palace, which are still there. Links his findings to the Biblical story of evolution and is eventually discredited following the publication of Darwin's Origin of the Species.

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GOR005319901
9780439973335
0439973333
Discovering Dinosaurs by Valerie Wilding
Used - Good
Paperback
Scholastic
20031212
176
N/A
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