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We are prone to forget that the planet may be measured by man, but not according to man.

Eduard Suess

If we imagine an observer to approach our planet from outer space, and, pushing aside the belts of red-brown clouds which obscure our atmosphere, to gaze for a whole day on the surface of the earth as it rotates beneath him, the feature, beyond all others most likely to arrest his attention would be the wedge-like outlines of the continents as they narrow away to the South.

Eduard Suess

Eduard Suess

Eduard Suess

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Born: August 20, 1831

Died: April 26, 1914 (aged 82)

Bio: Eduard Suess was an Austrian geologist who was an expert on the geography of the Alps. He is responsible for hypothesising two major former geographical features, the supercontinent Gondwana and the Tethys Ocean.

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