Josef Keindl (1903-2007)! was an Austrian scientist, almost unknown by the ‘academic’ world.
''Keindl, 'Dehnt sich die Erde aus?' [Is the Earth Expanding?] (1940) was, like the others, initially stimulated by Wegener, and he only discovered the works of Lindemann and Hilgenberg after he had independently reached the conclusion that the earth had to be expanding, in order to satisfy the first-order morphology of the earth. Nor did he seem to have been aware of Halm’s contribution five years earlier. Like Hilgenberg, Keindl opted for an original sialic crust covering completely the whole earth, with subsequent tensional disruption, which gave rise to the ever-growing oceans. The source of disruption and of all orogenesis had to be sought deep within the earth - at least in the core. The whole universe and everything within it is in a state of expansion. Normal stars differ from white dwarfs in that the luminous gaseous envelope has been stripped from the super-dense cores of the latter.’'
S. Warren Carey, The Expanding Earth, 1976, p. 25
Dehnt sich die Erde aus?, Harold-Verlag Dr. Franz Wetzel & Co., K.-G. Muenchen-Solln, 1940; p. 50, 9 figs.; printed wrappers; good condition.
Exceptionally rare.
We know only three copies of this booklet (public libraries included):
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The Austrian National Library's copy
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The Library of Congress’ copy
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Our copy.
Price: USD 1,200,000.00