The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood and the Humble Genius Who Discovered a New History of the Earth by Alan Cutler

The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood and the Humble Genius Who Discovered a New History of the Earth

Alan Cutler

228 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

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Dubbed the founder of modern geology by Stephen Jay Gould, the 17th-century Danish scientist Nicolaus Steno was the first man to discover deep time: to suggest that the existence of fossils, particularly those far away from where the animals of wh...

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