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

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  heisenberg1922
  November 24th, 2018
  

  I did not upload this book, but did decide to add this for your Info:

  Dubbed “the founder of modern geology” 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 which they are the remains would have lived (”the seashell on the mountaintop”) demanded a much longer history for the Earth than the roughly 6000 years suggested by the Bible. Steno’s work was ignored for over a century: he himself dropped his geological studies without completing a university dissertation; he converted to Catholicism and later became a bishop; in 1988 he was beatified by Pope John Paul I. This work tells the story of this passionate and fascinating man, exploring his contributions to geology and his remarkable ideas on science and religion. Steno’s work was eventually to transform Western ideas of time, creating not only a long past for the earth, but also the possibility of a future that was not about to be cut short by Armageddon.

  The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius who Discovered a New History of the Earth - Alan Cutler
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  spaniel1
  November 24th, 2018
  

  

  MojoYugen: many thanks for the science book - My chief interest! Really appreciate your share :)

  heisenberg1922: thank you for adding the additional information about Steno! Much appreciated! :)

  In some ways Steno’s life reminds me very much of other great minds who were ignored or dismissed as ‘quacks’. People such as Immanuel Velikovsky who is still, in some scientific circles, seen as a quack, but who’s work is still widely copied and the false geoscientists, etc, who plagiarized his lifetime of studies and papers are lionized.

  The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius who Discovered a New History of the Earth - Alan Cutler
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  bayesian
  November 27th, 2019
  

  

  Thank you!

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

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