In 1620,Francis Bacon of England noted the parallelism of the Atlantic coastlines of South America and Africa and suggested that these continents had once been joined.

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This statement is true. Francis Bacon did note the parallelism of the Atlantic coastlines of South America and Africa and suggested that these continents had once been joined. This observation was one of the early pieces of evidence that helped support the modern theory of continental drift.

In 1620,Francis Bacon of England Noted the Parallelism of the Atlantic