Biosphere
The term "biosphere" first appeared in 1875 in a work by the Austrian geologist
Eduard Suess as a thin layer of the lower atmosphere and the lithosphere. But it was made famous by
Vladimir Vernadsky as the title of his 1926 book
The Biosphere.
The term influenced
Teilhard de Chardin in his naming of a "mind-sphere" as the "noösphere." Teilhard introduced the term noösphere in a 1922 publication on his theory of cosmogony that he called "Cosmogenesis."
The idea of the earth and sky being populated with life was surely in the minds of
James Lovelock and
Lynn Margulis as they formulated their
Gaia hypothesis in the 1970's.
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