…just plain weird. Science does indeed proceed this way, bottom up, from measuring anything and everything of interest (to someone - maybe not to most of us, but to someone - I invite you to read The Map that Changed the World). Science also proceeds from the top down, from theory to measurement. But often because there was another theory that failed to align with existing measurement. Think general relativity and its better…
我很喜欢《改变世界的地图》（The Map That Changed The World），它讲述了地质学在英国工业革命时期是如何发展起来的。这是威廉·史密斯的故事，他是最早在煤矿中识别出地层结构的人之一……
I enjoyed "The Map That Changed The World", which is the story of how the study of geology developed during the Industrial period of England. It's the story of William Smith, one of the first people to identify strata formations in coal mines…
……那就是《太平洋：硅芯片与冲浪板、珊瑚礁与原子弹、残暴独裁者、衰落帝国，以及未来世界超级大国的碰撞》（Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers）。他之前的书包括关于英国第一张地质图的《改变世界的地图》、关于《牛津英语词典》编纂历程的《万物之意》（The Meaning of Everything），以及《喀拉喀托：世界爆发之日》（Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded）。听书体验都很棒。
…that was "Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers". Previous books of his include "The Map That Changed the World" about the first geologic map of Britain", "The Meaning of Everything" about the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary, and "Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded". Good listens, all.
Reminds me of The Map that Changed the World ([1]), a map of England drawn by a professional canal digger who had noticed and documented strata throughout England, Wales, and southern Scotland. It was essentially the first geological map and led…
如果有人对更深层的故事感兴趣，文章里提到的西蒙·温彻斯特那本《改变世界的地图》（The Map that Changed the World）很值得一读。
For anyone interested in the deeper story, The Simon Winchester book, "The Map that Changed the World", referred to in the article is a good read.
约翰·麦克菲：《前世世界的年鉴》（Annals of the Former World），西蒙·温彻斯特：《改变世界的地图》（The Map that Changed the World），卢金斯等人：《地质学基础》（Essentials of Geology）
John McPhee: Annals of the former world, Simon Winchester: The Map that Changed the World, Lutgens et al.: Essentials of Geology
……简直太不可思议了。科学确实是这样发展的，自底向上，去测量任何有意思的事物（对某个人有意思就行——可能我们大多数人不觉得，但总有人感兴趣——我强烈建议你读读《改变世界的地图》）。科学也会自顶向下发展，从理论推到测量。但这往往是因为存在另一个与现有测量结果无法吻合的理论。想想广义相对论以及它更好的……
…just plain weird. Science does indeed proceed this way, bottom up, from measuring anything and everything of interest (to someone - maybe not to most of us, but to someone - I invite you to read The Map that Changed the World). Science also proceeds from the top down, from theory to measurement. But often because there was another theory that failed to align with existing measurement. Think general relativity and its better…
我很喜欢《改变世界的地图》（The Map That Changed The World），它讲述了地质学在英国工业革命时期是如何发展起来的。这是威廉·史密斯的故事，他是最早在煤矿中识别出地层结构的人之一……
I enjoyed "The Map That Changed The World", which is the story of how the study of geology developed during the Industrial period of England. It's the story of William Smith, one of the first people to identify strata formations in coal mines…
……那就是《太平洋：硅芯片与冲浪板、珊瑚礁与原子弹、残暴独裁者、衰落帝国，以及未来世界超级大国的碰撞》（Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers）。他之前的书包括关于英国第一张地质图的《改变世界的地图》、关于《牛津英语词典》编纂历程的《万物之意》（The Meaning of Everything），以及《喀拉喀托：世界爆发之日》（Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded）。听书体验都很棒。
…that was "Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers". Previous books of his include "The Map That Changed the World" about the first geologic map of Britain", "The Meaning of Everything" about the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary, and "Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded". Good listens, all.
这让我想起了《改变世界的地图》（[1]），那是一张由一位专业运河挖掘工绘制的英格兰地图，他在英格兰、威尔士和苏格兰南部各地注意并记录了地层结构。它基本上是第一张地质图，并且引领了……
Reminds me of The Map that Changed the World ([1]), a map of England drawn by a professional canal digger who had noticed and documented strata throughout England, Wales, and southern Scotland. It was essentially the first geological map and led…