The controversy over Louis Agassiz’s 1837 ice age theory is found!

Louis Agassiz’s 1837 ice age theory, seems pretty well known now.  But he didn't come up with it, this is found and not found on Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Agassiz#Ice_age

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louis-Agassiz

But what does not appear on the Agassiz page, on Wikipedia, or Britannica, is that he stole it from Karl Shimper

This knowledge does appear, in a brief way,  in the Karl Schimper article

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Friedrich_Schimper

This remarkable paper published 50 years after gives a wonderful account of the whole sordid matter.

https://archive.org/details/jstor-25101263/page/n1/mode/2up

Just beautiful writing in that old text, thanks to archive.org for saving it from obscurity

It's mentioned in

A Short History of Nearly Everything

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Short_History_of_Nearly_Everything