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I was in the middle of a book about Nicolaus Steno, the seventeenth century Danish anatomist, whom some call the grandfather of geology.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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I was in the middle of a book about Nicolaus Steno, the seventeenth century Danish anatomist, whom some call the grandfather of geology.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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And then the grandfather of geology, Nicolaus Steno’s words come back to me once again: Beautiful is what we see.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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And then the grandfather of geology, Nicolaus Steno’s words come back to me once again: Beautiful is what we see.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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Feb. 10, 1667: A Danish anatomist named Nicolaus Steno suggests that angular pieces of rock called "tongue stones" are actually petrified shark’s teeth.
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The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Feb. 10, 1667: A Danish anatomist named Nicolaus Steno publishes a paper suggesting that angular pieces of rock called "tongue stones" are actually petrified shark’s teeth.
A Rare Trifecta 2008
chained_bear commented on the word Nicolaus Steno
"A trio of seventeenth-century naturalists converged on the idea that the solid bodies within rocks were actually remains of once-living organisms. Studying the teeth of a recently killed shark prompted Nicolaus Steno in 1667 to conjecture that the embedded material of fossils was initially liquid. He concluded that the strata in rock formation had once been horizontal to the earth, making its current placement a marker of geological time. ..."
--Joyce Appleby, Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination (New York and London: W.W. Norton & Co., 2013), p. 238
December 28, 2016