Alfred Wegener, “The Origin of Continents and Oceans”, 1915.

The biosphere of the Earth consists of: lithosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere. Alfred Wegener, “The Origin of Continents and Oceans”, 1915 was the first to describe changes below the exosphere of Earth. Today, Wegener’s controversial views are accepted by the mainstream of science.  Alexander Oparin, “The Origin of Life “, 1924 was the topic of an earlier blog post.