Earth Sciences
- Louis Agassiz publishes his Etudes sur les glaciers, the first major scientific work to propose that the Earth has seen an ice age.
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“Words whispered on Earth are heard in Heaven like thunder; evil done in dark places the gods see like lightning.”
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