“Fossil Hunter: How Mary Anning Changed the Science of Prehistoric Life” (CLICK HERE for it)
Author Cheryl Blackford tells the story of Mary Anning, “a complicated person—religious…, proud, sometimes rude…, and yet kind, generous, and affectionate, too”. Anning was from a poor family, and she fit neither in the world of her family nor in the world of the far wealthier people who shared her interest in fossils. The book touches on her faith, on the role of other people of faith (mostly clergymen in the Church of England) involved in the search for fossils, and on the difficulties these people experienced in finding that the world appeared to be older than what a plain reading of the Bible would seem to suggest.
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