Abyssal plains were not recognized as distinct physiographic features of the sea floor until the late 1940s and, until very recently, none had been studied on a systematic basis. They are poorly preserved in the sedimentary record, because they tend to be consumed by the subduction process.
The first man to discover that the earth moves around the sun was an Italian scientist named Galileo Galilei.
Nicolaus Copernicus was an astronomer who discovered that the Sun is the center of the universe (Heliocentric Theory) and the planets and stars revolved around it.This discovery shattered the Geocentric Theory, the thought that the Earth was the center of the universe and everything revolved around it.onfidence votes 64. Nicolaus Copernicus discoved that the Earth revolves around the sun. This displaced other theories that the Earth was at the centre of the universe and that the Sun revolved around it.