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In comparison with ourselves our world is large, its mountains and valleys are gigantic excrescences on its surface, whilst the elevations and depressions, representing continental elevations and ocean basins, form irregularities the magnitude of which we can only appreciate by the aid of figures.
John Milne
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Born:
December 30, 1850
Died:
July 31, 1913
(aged 62)
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John Milne was a British geologist and mining engineer who worked on a horizontal seismograph.
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