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WEGENER, Alfred.

Die Entstehung der Kontinente.

Gotha: Justus Perthes, 1912. First edition, journal issues in the original printed wrappers. “Wegener is remembered today as the originator and one of the chief proponents of the theory of continental drift, which he conceived after being struck by the apparent correspondence in the shapes of the coastlines on the..... More
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WERNER, Abraham Gottlob.

Von den äusserlichen Kennzeichen der Fossilien.

Leipzig: Siegfried Lebrecht Crusius, 1774. First edition, rare, of Werner’s first published work and the first modern textbook of descriptive mineralogy (the ‘fossils’ in the title refer to anything removed from the ground). “Although Werner is best known for his contribution to the founding of geology as a science, he..... More
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