alleryWho is credited as the first published thinker to say rainfall alone could sustain rivers?
AAristotle of Greece
BLeonardo da Vinci
CBernard Palissy
DHesiod of Greece
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Bernard Palissy
1. Bernard Palissy asserted in 1580 that rainfall alone sustains rivers.
2. Leonardo da Vinci and others still believed in water pushed up from the oceans.
3. Aristotle and Homer lived much earlier.
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