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

Brief Description:
Seventeenth-century scientists were baffled: How did the fossils of seashells find their way to the tops of mountains? Nicolaus Steno, hailed as "the founder of Geology," solved the puzzle by exploring beyond the pages of the Bible and looking directly at the clues left in the layers of the Earth. With his groundbreaking answer to the fossil question, Steno confounded religious and scientific thinking, setting the stage for the modern science. At the same time his ideas were undermining the Bible's authoritative claim as to the age of the planet, Steno was entering the priesthood and rising to bishop. He would ultimately become venerated as a saint, beatified in 1988.

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