Woodward, John. Dr. Woodward’s Shield; History, Science, and Satire in Augustan England, by Joseph M. Levine (1991)

Woodward, John. Dr. Woodward’s Shield; History, Science, and Satire in Augustan England, by Joseph M. Levine (1991)

Cornell University Press

  • £16.00


Woodward, John. Dr. Woodward’s Shield; History, Science, and Satire in Augustan England, by Joseph M. Levine (1991). Cornell University Press, 1st PB edition of 1977 original. 362 pp. In new condition.

John Woodward (1665-1728) created the Woodwardian professorship of geology at the University of Cambridge through his legacy and his collection is the nucleus the modern Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, where it may be seen.