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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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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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The seashell on the mountaintop
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Alan Cutler
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a story of science, sainthood, and the humble genius who discovered a new history of the earth
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The story of enigmatic scientist-turned-priest, Nicholas Steno, who first proposed that the shell-shaped rocks commonly found on Italian mountaintops actually were fossilsa 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 science with stories of extraordinary people to bring home the philosophical and personal significance of Steno's ideas, offering a fresh, new perspective on the very old planet on which we live
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