The Seashell on the Mountaintop: The Story of Science Sainthood, and the Humble Genius Who Discovered a New History ofEarth by Alan Cutler, Alan Cutler
The Seashell on the Mountaintop: The Story of Science Sainthood, and the Humble Genius Who Discovered a New History ofEarth
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Alan Cutler, Alan Cutler
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The Seashell on the Mountaintop: The Story of Science Sainthood, and the Humble Genius Who Discovered a New History ofEarth

Alan Cutler, Alan Cutler

6 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
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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 fossils--a notion completely antithetical to the 17th century theological and scien...

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