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STENO, NICOLAUS (1631-1686)

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STENO, NICOLAUS (1631-1686) , Danish naturalist, was See also:born at See also:Copenhagen in 1631, and studied See also:medicine and See also:anatomy in that See also:city and in See also:Paris. After a See also:period of travel he settled in See also:Italy (1666) at first as See also:professor of anatomy at See also:Padua, and then in See also:Florence as See also:house-physician to the See also:grand-See also:duke See also:Ferdinand II. of See also:Tuscany. He returned to his native city in 1672 to become professor of anatomy, but, having become a See also:Roman See also:Catholic, he found it expedient to return to Florence, and was ultimately made apostolic See also:vicar of See also:Lower See also:Saxony. He died at See also:Schwerin in See also:Mecklenburg, on the 25th of See also:November 1686. His fame rests on De solid() infra solidum naturaliter contento, published at Florence in 1669. In this notable See also:work Steno described various gems, minerals and petrif actions (fossils) enclosed within solid rocks. He compared the fossil with the living organisms, and distinguished marine and fluviatile formations. He argued also in favour of the See also:original horizontality of sedimentary deposits. See Di Nicola Stenone e dei suoi studii geologici in Italia, by G. Capellini (1870) ; K. A. von See also:Zittel's See also:History of See also:Geology and Palaeontology (Eng. ed., 1901) ; and W. J.

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Science Progress for See also:Jan. 1898.

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