James Croll was a Scottish scientist, born in 1821 in Perthshire and died in 1890 in Perth, who developed an early theory of climate variability grounded in changes in the shape and orientation of the Earth's orbit. His astronomically based account linked variations in the Earth's orbital geometry to the timing of ice ages, an approach that anticipated the twentieth century orbital theory of climate change later refined by Milutin Milankovic.
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James Croll, FRS, (2 January 1821 – 15 December 1890) was a Scottish scientist who developed a theory of climate variability based on changes in the Earth's orbit.
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January 2, 1821
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2 January 1821
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December 15, 1890
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15 December 1890
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Little Whitefield, Perthshire, Scotland
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Perth, Scotland
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Scottish scientist
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Wikidata Q183189, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source James Croll (Wikidata)
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citizen of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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born in Scotland
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died in Perth
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