Saussure
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Was Ferdinand de Saussure a structuralist or a post-structuralist?
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
Saussure was obsessed with mountains as a focus of his research; he believed they held the key to understanding the Earth.
From The Guardian • May 16, 2019
As early as 1787, Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, conducting earth sciences research, documented mountain sickness there.
From New York Times • Nov. 14, 2012
Despite this exact statement, de Saussure failed to connect large boulders found in the foreland of the mountains to the glaciers of the Alps.
From Scientific American • Jan. 4, 2011
They had no children, but Madame Bonnet’s nephew, the celebrated H.B. de Saussure, was brought up as their son.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various
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