“Portrait of an Arctic Research Station”
Flora Mary Bartlett captures the flows between lab and landscape through photographic exploration.
geophysics
Alfred Wegener’s Theory of Continental Drift
Alfred Wegener was the first scientist to theorize the concept of continental drift to explain how land masses are situated today. Modernized technology proved his proposition to be true in the 1960s and many divisions of geologic study today begin with Wegener’s ideas.
Regions:
Roundtable Review of The Passage to Cosmos by Laura Dassow Walls
In this book, Laura Dassow Walls describes how the explorer Alexander von Humboldt developed his unitary worldview.