Steno's

In what is now referred to as Steno's law of superposition, he reasoned that layers of rock are arranged in a time sequence, with the oldest on the bottom and the youngest on the top, unless later processes disturb this arrangement.

Nicolas Steno Google doodle marks his 374th birth anniversary 2012

Steno's work on the formation of rock layers and the fossils they contain was pivotal to the development of modern geology while his catholic piety has also been evaluated in recent decades with a view to his possible canonisation.

Nicolas Steno Google doodle marks his 374th birth anniversary 2012

On a related subject, Steno's Le avventure di Giacomo Casanova "The Adventures of Giacomo Casanova," 1955 -- the first film photographed in color by Mario Bava -- was recently released on DVD in Italy by Ripley's Home Video, a label dedicated to resurrecting the Italian popular cinema of decades past.

Archive 2006-03-19 2006

On a related subject, Steno's Le avventure di Giacomo Casanova "The Adventures of Giacomo Casanova," 1955 -- the first film photographed in color by Mario Bava -- was recently released on DVD in Italy by Ripley's Home Video, a label dedicated to resurrecting the Italian popular cinema of decades past.

Bava's Casanova 2006

Spurred on by the dispute, Steno plunged into his investigation of glands and ducts, and discovered among many others the lateral nasal gland, which is still called Steno's gland.

Meet Nicholas Steno 2005

We know that Steno spent some time in a student company manning the ramparts, but not much more; most of what has survived of Steno's life is found in a text called the Chaos-manuscript discovered in 1946 in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Florence, Italy, by Father Gustav Scherz: 92 folio pages of closely written observations, experiments, reflections, & excerpts.

Meet Nicholas Steno 2005

Or yet that blessed Steno's sight was not sparked by glory's light, or that there was no work divine in the vivid vision of the sign that moved an Empire to believe?

Archive 2005-08-01 2005

We know that Steno spent some time in a student company manning the ramparts, but not much more; most of what has survived of Steno's life is found in a text called the Chaos-manuscript discovered in 1946 in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Florence, Italy, by Father Gustav Scherz: 92 folio pages of closely written observations, experiments, reflections, & excerpts.

Archive 2005-08-01 2005

Cosimo III had Steno's body brough back to Florence, where it can be found in the Church of San Lorenzo. on 23 October 1988, John Paul II beatified him.

Meet Nicholas Steno 2005

Cosimo III had Steno's body brough back to Florence, where it can be found in the Church of San Lorenzo. on 23 October 1988, John Paul II beatified him.

Archive 2005-08-01 2005