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“The sun fades away, the land sinks into the sea, the bright stars disappear from the sky, as smoke and fire destroy the world, and the flames reach the sky.” The End of the World according to the “Völuspa“, a collection of Icelandic myths compiled in the 13th century. Fig.1. Hand coloured copper engraving of [...]
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March 1929 the German meteorologists Alfred Wegener, Johannes Georgi (1888-1972), Fritz Loewe (1895-1974) and Ernst Sorge (1899-1946) arrived to Greenland, searching a site for a coastal base camp – a starting point for an ambitious expedition to the inner ice sheet – they found it in the Kamarujuk Fjord. One year later 18 scientists, 25 [...]
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“Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.” “A Dream Within A Dream” by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) There is lot fuzz about the discovery [...]
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The first day of the “Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations” was a great success – half a million people visited the official opening of the first World’s Fair at Crystal Palace, a 20 acres large greenhouse located in Hyde Park of central London. Fig.1. Lithograph by Joseph Nash depicting the [...]
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Fig.1. “Mother Earth”, the nourisher of all things, from the alchemistic work “Atalanta fugiens” (1618) by Michael Maier (image in public domain). “Surface conditions on Earth, have been for most of geological time regulated by life…[]…This new link between Geology and Biology originated in the Gaia hypothesis” NASA geologist Paul Lowman (2002) In 1965 James [...]
