Written by Terry Sullivan in 1908

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IMPORTANT PEOPLELANGUAGE II

MARÍA SOL MANULI

MARY ANNING: “THE GREATEST FOSSILIST

OF THE WORLD”

MARY ANNING:

Childhood

Family

Fossils as family business

Major discoveries

Interaction with the scientific community

Illness and Death

How her findings changed some scientific conceptions.

Sol’s opinion about Mary Anning.

CHILDHOOD, HER FAMILY AND THEIR FOSSIL BUSINESS

1799Mary Anning is

born on 21 May

Mary Anning’s Parents: Richard Anning and Mary Moore, known as Molly.Only Joseph and Mary survived.A lucky escape

They were religious dissenters. They were not followers of the Church of England.

Poor working-class family.

French revolutionar

y war( 1792-1802)

Blue Lias• Alternating layers of limestone and shale.• the Jurassic period (about 210–195 million

years ago).

Shale

Limestone

MAJOR DISCOVERIES

1819: The fossil Ichthyosaur is brought to the British Museum

Early Jurassic

belemnites ammonites

Interaction with the scientific community

Mary Annig was an enigma of her time.Women were just regarded as empty-headed

individuals.Mary Anning was marginalized because of

her sex, regional dialect, lack of formal education, and adherence to the Dissenter faith.

However, Mary contributed with several famous geologists

At the end, Mary became famous across Europe as a fossil hunter and was made a Fellow of the Geological Society just before she died – this was very unusual for a woman

Illness and Death

• She passed away on 9th May in 1847

• She suffered from Breast cancer

• Darwin took Anning’s discoveries as an evidence in order to carry out his “Theory of Evolution”. Mary Anning is mentioned in his “The Origin of Species”

How her findings changed some scientific conceptions

• Anning's discoveries

became key pieces of

evidence for extinction.

• To understand how were environment s in the past and the history of the Earth.

• Also, They were useful to support other scientific viewpoints.

• To develop a new science

called “paleontology” .

Sol’s opinion about Mary Anning

A Self-taught personCurious IntelligentSingle-minded Lively personalityApproachableModest

Sources:• [Shelley_Emling]_The_Fossil_Hunter_Dinosaurs• Mary Anning- Princess of Palaeontology and Geological Lioness.pdf• wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Anning• http://www.bbc.co.uk/• www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/anning.html• https://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/anning.html• www.lymeregismuseum.co.uk/in-the.../mary-anning• Great Minds Mary Anning, 'The Greatest Fossilist in the World'.wmv

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