Mapping Motion through Magnetism The Rhetorical Conception of the Vine-Matthews-Morley Hypothesis
The continental drift hypothesis—an early version of continental mobilism—was proposed by Alfred Wegener in 1912. Figure 6.1 presents one of the diagrams from the 1922 German edition of Wegener’sThe Origin of Continents and Oceans, which was translated into English in 1924. These maps estimate chang...
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| Published in | Assembling Arguments p. 91 |
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| Format | Book Chapter |
| Language | English |
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University of South Carolina Press
20.01.2016
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| Summary: | The continental drift hypothesis—an early version of continental mobilism—was proposed by Alfred Wegener in 1912. Figure 6.1 presents one of the diagrams from the 1922 German edition of Wegener’sThe Origin of Continents and Oceans, which was translated into English in 1924. These maps estimate changes in continental positions over time. Wegener was not the first person to notice the seeming correspondence between distant continental coastlines; for example, South America’s eastern coast and Africa’s western coast seem like they once fit together. However, he was original in identifying additional evidence—such as the locations of mountain ranges and |
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| ISBN: | 1611175615 9781611175615 |