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Douglas Pitt is a man possessed. Laughed at, mocked and dismissed at every turn. Pitt has spent the best part of an unremarkable academic career attempting to prove the genius of Samuel Highgate Syme (b.1794, Baltimore; soldier, geologist, inventor). Pitt’s postulation is simple enough: that Syme, through some fault, wrong-doing, conspiracy or mischance, has not been credited with the recognition he deserves for hitting upon a key discovery in the advance of modern science – the theory of continental drift (fly leaf).
