Early speculations about Earth expansion by Alfred Wilks Drayson (1827-1901) and William Thorp (1804-1860)
Abstract In 1859, speculations about the possibility of Earth expansion were entertained by the Victorian polymathic scientist Alfred Wilks Drayson and his good friend William Thorp, a respected geologist and founding member of the Yorkshire Geological Society. Drayson outlined his speculations about Earth expansion in his 1859 book, The Earth we Inhabit, Its Past, Present […]
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