Re: Clarke Award Finalists 1993

On 2025-04-15, Stephen Harker <sjharker@aussiebroadband.com.au> wrote:

Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

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... where I learned that English geologic vocabulary is full of German.

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I understand that is because when in the Medieval period they wanted to
exploit mineral resources they did the usual invite specialists who were
from Germany.  Probably with incentives.

What it suggests to me is that when geology took shape as the modern
scientific discipline, presumably in the 19th century, leading
research happened in Germany ~ Central Europe and was published in
German.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de