Translation for "erdentstehung" to english
Translation examples
Er war so überzeugt davon, den Schlüssel zum Verständnis der Erdentstehung gefunden zu haben, dass Goethe später in einem Brief, in dem er Humboldt den Besuch einer Freundin ankündigte, scherzhaft meinte: »Da Sie zu den Naturforschen gehören, die alles durch Vulcane erzeugt halten, so sende ich Ihnen einen weiblichen Vulcan, der alles vollends versengt und verbrennt, was noch übrig ist.«35
He became so fascinated with them as the key to understanding the creation of the earth that Goethe later joked, in a letter that introduced a female friend to Humboldt: ‘since you belong to the naturalists who believe that everything was created by volcanoes, I’m sending you a female volcano who completely scorches and burns whatever is left.’
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