| Philby |
hey do any of you find it interesting reading old journal papers on topics that are now commonly accepted but then were not widely known or accepted? i'm reading a paper by wilson called "continental drift" which was published before plate tectonics was established, and i think its really interesting to read about ideas and concepts that are now taken for granted or assumed but then were either controversial ideas or not even invented/existed yet! ie now everybody knows (well i mean like everyone doing geology) that the plates (they didn't have plates then, just continents!) move around and we had supercontinents and stuff, but at the time people talking about stuff like that were laughed at and told "get stuffed thats prepostorous". anyways i think its pretty interesting...
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