Thomas Sopwith, MA, CE, FRS; with Excerpts from his Diary of Fifty-seven Years
1891; Nature Portfolio; Volume: 44; Issue: 1147 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1038/044590a0
ISSN1476-4687
Tópico(s)History of Science and Natural History
ResumoMR. SOPWITH died in 1879 at the age of seventy-six. He was not eminent as an original scientific investigator, but he was a man of great vigour and freshness of mind, and had won the affection of a wide circle of friends by his genial and happy temper. For many years he resided at Newcastle as an engineer and railway surveyor. Afterwards he removed to Allenheads, where he served as the chief agent of Mr. T. W. Beaumont's lead-mines in Northumberland and Durham. Dr. Richardson's book will recall Mr. Sopwith vividly to the minds of his friends, and it contains many things which will be of interest even to readers who were not personally acquainted with him. During the long period of fifty-seven years he kept a diary regularly; and of this, of course, Dr. Richardson has made liberal use. The extracts show that Mr. Sopwith studied closely the currents of scientific opinion, and formed his own judgment about them in a shrewd and independent spirit.
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