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I HAVE been urged from several quarters to defend my argument for the rigidity of the earth against attacks which are supposed to have been made upon it. It has, in fact, never been attacked to my knowledge, and I feel under no obligation to defend it. There is, I believe, a general impression that grave objections to it have been raised by M Delaunay, and it seems that even in this country some geological writers and teachers, in their reluctance to abandon the hypothesis of a thin solid crust, enclosing a wholly liquid mass hastily concluded that all dynamical arguments against it had been utterly overthrown by Delaunay.
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THOMSON, W. The Rigidity of the Earth. Nature 5, 223–224 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/005223a0
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