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Article: History of Exploration III (Modern Era)
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History of exploration III (modern era)
Until the dawn of the twentieth century, exploration of Earth's surface was limited to the surface itself. The summits of the highest mountains, the depths of the
oceans
, and sky and
space
were unexplored. Technological advances, as well as fundamental shifts in scientific theory, opened the entire world, and beyond, to exploration. The twentieth century was the golden age of discovery, rivaled only by the Copernican Revolution and the European discovery of the New World in the fifteenth century.
In 1859, Charles Darwin published a natural history work that sparked great controversy. Darwin's book,
On the Origin of Species
, was a compilation ...