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The Seashell on the Mountaintop: Story Sci Sainthood Humble Genius Who Discovered New Hist Earth Capa dura - 2003
por Alan Cutler
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 such a thing. Texts no less authoritative than the Old Testament laid out very clearly the timescale of Earth's past; in fact one Anglican archbishop went so far as to calculate the exact date of Creation...October 23, 4004, B.C.
A revolution was in the making, however, 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.
Combining a thrilling scientific investigation with world-altering history and the portrait of an extraordinary genius, The Seashell on the Mountaintop gives us new insight into the very old planet on which we live, revealing how we learned to read the story told to us by the Earth itself, written in rock and stone.
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- Título The Seashell on the Mountaintop: Story Sci Sainthood Humble Genius Who Discovered New Hist Earth
- Autor Alan Cutler
- Encadernação Capa dura
- Edição First Edition
- Páginas 240
- Volumes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Dutton Books, New York
- Data de publicação 2003-04-28
- Ilustrado Sim
- ISBN 9780525947080 / 0525947086
- Peso 0.8 libras (0.36 kg)
- Dimensão 8.59 x 5.88 x 0.92 in. (21.82 x 14.94 x 2.34 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Catholic Church - Clergy, Steno, Nicolaus
- Número da Biblioteca do Congresso dos Estados Unidos 2003000125
- Dewey Decimal Code 550.903
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