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Robert Bakewell (Geologist)
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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ROBERT BAKEWELL (1768-1843), English geologist, was born in 1768. He was an able observer, and deserving of mention as one of the earliest teachers of general and practical geology. His Introduction to Geology (1813) contained much sound information, and reached a fifth edition in 1838. The second edition was translated and published in Germany, and the third and fourth editions were reprinted in America by Professor Silliman of Yale College. Bakewell as author also of an Introduction to Mineralogy (1819), and of Travels comprising Observations made during a Residence in the Tarentaise, &c. (2 vols., 1823). He died at Hampstead on the r 5th of August 1843.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Robert Bakewell (Geologist)'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/r/robert-bakewell-geologist.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Robert Bakewell (Geologist)'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/r/robert-bakewell-geologist.html. 1910.
