Alfred Wegener : Science, Exploration, and the Theory of Continental Drift /
"The author of the theory of continental drift - the direct ancestor of the modern theory of plate tectonics and one of the key scientific concepts of the past century - Wegener also made major contributions to geology, geophysics, astronomy, geodesy, atmospheric physics, meteorology, and glaci...
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2015]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. The boy : Berlin and Brandenburg, 1880-1899
- 2. The student : Berlin-Heidelberg-Innsbruck-Berlin, 1899-1901
- 3. The astronomer : Berlin, 1901-1904
- 4. The aerologist : Lindenberg, 1905-1906
- 5. The polar meteorologist : Greenland, 1906
- 6. The Arctic explorer. 1, Greenland, 1907-1908
- 7. The atmospheric physicist. 1, Berlin and Marburg, 1908-1910
- 8. The atmospheric physicist. 2, Marburg, 1910
- 9. At a crossroads : Marburg, 1911
- 10. The theorist of continental drift. 1, Marburg, December 1911-February 1912
- 11. The theorist of continental drift. 2, Marburg, February-April 1912
- 12. The Arctic explorer. 2, Greenland, 1912-1913
- 13. The soldier : Marburg and "the field," 1913-1915
- 14. The meteorologist : "in the field," 1916-1918
- 15. The geophysicist : Hamburg, 1919-1920
- 16. From geophysicist to climatologist : Hamburg, 1920-1922
- 17. The paleoclimatologist : Hamburg, 1922-1924
- 18. The professor : Graz, 1924-1928
- 19. Theorist and Arctic explorer : Graz and Greenland, 1928-1929
- 20. The expedition leader : Graz and Greenland, 1929-1930
- Epilogue.