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Article: `ICE FINDERS' A LIVELY TRIBUTE TO DISCOVERERS OF THE ICE AGE.(Lifestyle)(Review)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- January 19, 2000
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``Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice,'' Robert Frost wrote. Edmund Blair Bolles doesn't opt for either of the poet's choices - but his vibrant account of the resistance met by ideas that challenge our view of the world does remind us that in some respects 19th-century science hadn't advanced much further than Galileo and the Inquisition.
When Louis Agassiz scandalized science in the 1830s with his theory of an Ice Age, he assumed that he had found evidence of meaning in nature. ``The Ice Finders'' is constructed around three men: Agassiz, Elisha Kent Kane and Charles Lyell.
Agassiz was the professor who developed the notion that a ...