Richard Dixon Oldham Professions : GeologistBorn : July 31, 1858Died : July 15, 1936 Browse All Authors Famous Quotes by Richard Dixon Oldham Just as the spectroscope opened up a new astronomy by enabling the astronomer to determine some of the constituents of which distant stars are composed, so the seismograph, recording the unfelt motion of distant earthquakes, enables us to see into the earth and determine its nature with as great a certainty, up to a certain point, as if we could drive a tunnel through it and take samples of the matter passed through. Richard Dixon Oldham starsnaturescience Similar Authors Archibald Geikie geologist Alfred Harker geologist Bernhard von Cotta geologist Douglas Mawson geologist Ian Plimer geologist Hugh Miller geologistAll Authors
