Rob's Blog
In this blog I’ll address topics related to the research for the book I’m working on, other adventures, and other items of interest related to Homo sapiens and Planet Earth.
De Saussure and the Heliothermometer
Horace Bénédict de Saussure was a natural philosopher from Geneva who explored the Alps in the late 1700s and puzzled through the reasons for the
Swiss Pioneers of the Ice Ages
Today kids learn about the Ice Ages in elementary school, but two hundred years ago the idea of the Ice Ages, while it was just
Pierrabot and Other Erratic Boulders
The Pierrabot, near Neuchâtel, and other giant glacial erratics in western Switzerland and elsewhere were initially a great puzzle to early geologists. The question was