Design plesiosaur discovered in 1821 that Mary Anning
the Beautiful Tracy Chevalier's novel, Strange creatures , based on the true story of Mary Anning (1799-1847), researcher of fossils and paleontology, who became famous in the scientific era thanks to its important discoveries of the remains of the Jurassic period, between cliffs of Dorset and Devon.
As a child he learned from his father to recognize, collect, clean and sell fossils, put back together perfectly, even though these animals are as yet unknown.
"A wonderful example of divine favor, that poor ignorant girl ... thanks to his reading and his diligence has reached a level of knowledge that they can have with teachers and other competent persons, and all recognize capsici that more than anyone else in the realm of science, "writes Lady Harriet Silvester in 1824.
This girl 'ignorant' was so competent in her field to be in correspondence with many eminent geologists of his time, among such as William Buckland, who has directed the following letter (undated).
Not surprisingly, in the writing of Mary Anning, the presence of important signs that indicate substantial strength of his mind and character: Firstly, the Uneven methodically above average (at least 7 / 10) for the originality, the angles A for enterprise and full activation of ego resources; Slender for the strong intuition that drove in his practical research Leaning the need to enter into loving relationships with the world, width between words in the media, that does not hamper the immediacy of the vision intuitive that characterizes it.
Writing, as we see, is very typical of an educated person, although it was too poor to have been able to take advantage of any formal education.
