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Glaciers du Monte Rosa

Agassiz, Louis

Glaciers du Monte Rosa - 1840 - B/W lithograph

From '�tudes sur les glaciers', 1840. Drawn and lithographed by Joseph Bettannier.


Swiss-born biologist and geologist, Professor of Natural History in the University of Neuch�tel, 1838. The subject of how what we know know as glacial erratic rocks, was hotly debated during the 19th century. Agassiz, in 1837, was first to propose that

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