Abraham Ortelius suggested the basic elements of the continental drift theory in 1596, thus antedating by more than 150 years other writers credited with early fomulations of the theory.
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Romm, J. A new forerunner for continental drift. Nature 367, 407–408 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1038/367407a0
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