2. Continental Drift

Abraham Ortelius, a Dutch map maker, was the first one to propose the possibility of the two Americas, Europe and Africa to be once joined together as early as 1596. Antonio Snider drew a map showing the three continents together in 1858, but this was so much opposed to the scientific view then prevailing that nobody took notice of it. In 1910, F.B. Taylor of America invoked the hypothesis of horizontal displacement of continents or continental drift with a view to explaining the distribution of mountain ranges.