Alfred Wegener and the Continental Drift | COSMOS | Jeff Glorfeld

History of Science
Written By Irina T.

“Wegener expanded this “debunked” hypothesis in 1915 into what NASA calls “one of the most influential and controversial books in the history of science: The Origin of Continents and Oceans”.

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