THE SEASHELL ON THE MOUNTAIN TOP

A STORY OF SCIENCE, SAINTHOOD, AND THE HUMBLE GENIUS WHO DISCOVERED A NEW HISTORY OF THE EARTH

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A revolution was in the making, and it was started by the brilliant and enigmatic Nicholas Steno, the man whom Stephen Jay Gould called “the founder of geology.” Steno 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 door to the concept of “deep time,” which imagined a world with a history of millions or billions of years. And at the very moment his expansive new ideas began to unravel the Bible’s authoritative claim as to the age of the Earth, Steno would enter the priesthood and rise to become a bishop, ultimately becoming venerated as a saint and beatified by the Catholic Church in 1988.
ISBN: 0525947086
Publisher: DUTTON
Subtitle: A STORY OF SCIENCE, SAINTHOOD, AND THE HUMBLE GENIUS WHO DISCOVERED A NEW HISTORY OF THE EARTH
Author: ALAN CUTLER

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0525947086

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2003

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228

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Alan Cutler has a Ph.D. in geology and is a writer affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution. Dr. Cutler was a contributing editor to the book Forces of Change: A New View of Nature, a joint publication of the Smithsonian and the National Geographic Society; contributors included Stephen Jay Gould, John McPhee, and David Quammen. Dr. Cutler’s writing has also appeared in The Washington Post and The Sciences, among other publications.

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