在每一期《环球科学》中，我们都有一个名为“经典回眸”的栏目，以期回到50年、100年和150年前，回顾当时科学与社会的样貌，见证世界科学的每一次进步。下面的内容节选自《环球科学》“经典回眸”，希望能带你回到1975年、1925年以及1875年，回看那 ...

在20世纪的地球科学领域，一场震撼学界的革命悄然兴起，而阿尔弗雷德·魏格纳（Alfred Wegener），无疑是这场伟大变革的英勇先驱。 他提出的大陆 ...

Alfred Wegener was one of those people. Though trained as an astronomer, he was a specialist on Greenland. He noticed that, based on nineteenth-century longitude determinations, it appeared that ...

Alfred Wegener was born in Berlin in 1880, where his father was a minister who ran an orphanage. From an early age he took an interest in Greenland, and always walked, skated, and hiked as though ...