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The Seashell on the Mountaintop, Alan Cutler, Book
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The Seashell on the Mountaintop, Alan Cutler
How did fossils of seashells find their way far inland, sometimes high up into the mountains? Nicolaus Steno, the man whom Stephen Jay Gould called "the founder of geology," explored beyond the pages of the Bible, looking directly at the clues left in the layers of the Earth. With his groundbreaking answer to the fossil question, Steno would not only confound the religious and scientific thinking of his own time, he would set the stage for the modern science that came after him. He would open the...
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The Seashell on the Mountaintop
The story of enigmatic scientist-turned-priest, Nicholas Steno, who first proposed that the shell-shaped rocks commonly found on Italian mountaintops actually were fossils - a notion completely antithetical to the 17th century theological and scientific world view, which maintained that the earth was only 6000 years old. Placing Steno's story in the context of such characters as Darwin, Newton, Thomas Jefferson and Saint Augustine, Alan Cutler illuminates the subject of "deep time" by combining authoritative...
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How could a seashell get into a rock on top of a mountain? The answer to that burning 17th-century question spurred a scientific, religious, and philosophical revolution that defined our intellectual history and underlies almost everything we know about how our planet works. Hear the story of the humble genius who discovered a new history of the earth. "Fascinating... animated and energetic... thriller of scientific discovery."Publishers Weekly » Read More
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How could a seashell get into a rock? And how could that rock get to the top of a mountain? The "seashell question" plagues 17th century thinkers who fervently believed the planet was young and the human race supreme.
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In the bestselling tradition of The Map that Changed the World and Longitude comes the tale of a seventeenth-century scientist-turned-priest who forever changed our understanding of the Earth and created a new field of science. It was an ancient puzzle that stymied history's greatest minds: How did the fossils of seashells find their way far inland, sometimes high up into the mountains? Fossils only made sense in a world old enough to form them, and in the seventeenth century, few people could imagine...
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How could a seashell get into a rock? And how could that rock get to the top of a mountain? The "seashell question" plagues 17th century thinkers who fervently believed the planet was young and the human race supreme.
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