Outline
Intro: Encounter at the Talas River
Scientific Correspondence
Journals
Meetings & Conferences
Intro: Alfred Wegener & Continental Drift
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Intro || Continental Drift Simulation
Epilog / Review
Encounter at Talas River
- continents [Fuller projection]
- decoded: world map [Fuller projection]
- asia
- middle east
- Lake Issyk Kul
- Khantau
- Syr Darya River
- bazaar [Samarqand]
- Talas Valley
- Arabs, Chinese & Turkics
- Battle of Talas River [fresco]
- papermaking
- Samarqand
- Baghdad
- paper & books
Correspondence
- Torricelli to Pascal
- Newton to Oldenburg
- Leuvenhoek
- Alfred Wallace & Charles Darwin
- Albert Einstein & Mileva Maric
- de la Beche, Murchison & Sedgwick
Journals
- Newton's Principia, Darwin's Origin
- Newton's "Theory about Light and Colors"
- Annales de Chemie
- Nature
- Science
- Mendel's classic paper
- Southeast Asia
Meetings & Conferences
- Eijkman, Koch
- Linus Pauling and Watson & Crick
- Somerset House, home of Royal Society, early 1800s
- Lavoisier
- John Gould & Darwin's Rhea [Zoological Society]
- British Assoc. for the Advancement of Science, 1842
- Solvay Conference, 1927
- 5th Washington Conference on Theoretical Physics
Intro to Continental Drift
- Alfred Wegener
- version of drift
- Pelligrini's transatlantic matching, 1858
- Bullard's map
Epilog / Review
- duToit: coastal fit (1920s)
- biogeography: Wallace line (1910s-20s)
- Runcorn: polar wandering curves (late 1950s)
- Heezen: mid-oceanic ridges
- Raff & Mason: paleomagnetic "zebra-striping" (1961)
- Vine & Matthews: sea floor spreading hypothesis
- J. Tuzo Wilson: transform faults
- Cox & Doell: K-Ar magnetic reversal timescale
- Opdyke: magnetic reversals in sediments
- Pitman: Eltanin-19 profile
- . . . reversed
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