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Thank you both for the replies so far! I'm familiar with the Chicxulub event and the work around it, but every bit of context helps, and a lot of the earlier 20th century stuff is a good place for me to start.

A few areas, including medieval pre-Cartesian origins and the catastrophism/uniformitarianism debate. Thanks! I'll try not to be too much of a bother to the true SMEs. :smile:

Not a physicist, but I've done some published work in history of science, and I asked my sister (astrophysics degree but working in biomed) a question regarding historical knowledge of impact events. She cleverly punted me to this forum, so now I'm your problem. :wink:

(This is a history of science question, so please let me know if it's not appropriate to this forum.) When did someone first realize that major Earth impact events (asteroids, etc.) could potentially be catastrophic? To be clear, I don't mean in the purely theoretical sense (the likely given...