THE JOURNEY FROM ELITE SOCIETY TO GOVERNMENT GEOLOGIST: HENRY DE LA BECHE'S (1796–1855) POWERFUL IMPACT ON THE IMPORTANCE OF OBSERVATION WITHIN AN EMERGING PROFESSIONAL SCIENCE
Henry De la Beche (1796–1855) entered the scientific realm within an elite group of gentleman geologists. As a firm advocate of observation, De la Beche's philosophy of science involved the collection of facts, from which satisfactory theories or solutions to geological problems could only aris...
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