Nicolas Steno
Pioneer in anatomy and geology, bishop (1638-1686) · Denmark · Religious Figures · Died at 48
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Something wrong?A Danish anatomist who stopped believing what his textbooks said about tears, then dissected a shark head and realized that "tongue stones" were ancient teeth - a crack that split geology open.
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Niels stensen
1982 Epitaph Niels Stensen Krypta Basilika St. Clemens Hannover
Arte romana, sarcofago del IV sec., con soggetti paleocristiani, 01 rinvenuto in arno nel 1933 e riutilizzato per il beato niccolò stenone
Arte romana, sarcofago del IV sec., con soggetti paleocristiani, 02 giovani gettati nella fornace per non adorare nabucodonosor, dal libro di daniele
Arte romana, sarcofago del IV sec., con soggetti paleocristiani, 03 gesù accommiata apostoli dopo ultima cena
Arte romana, sarcofago del IV sec., con soggetti paleocristiani, 04 gesù resuscita la figlia di giairo
Firenze, ritratto di niccolò stenone, in gesso, xix secolo, per le scale del museo della specola
Firenze, san lorenzo, cripta, ritratto del beato niccolò stenoneIn their own words 2
, Beautiful is what we see, More Beautiful is what we know, most Beautiful by far is what we don't.
There are those among us who would have us say that the mysteries of the brain are completely solved and little needs to be added to its knowledge.
About this person
Niels Steensen was born in Copenhagen on 1 January 1638 to a Lutheran family and trained in classical science, but by 1659 he'd begun tearing down received wisdom on tear ducts, fossils, and rock layers. His work on fossils and strata made him a founder of modern geology - so much so that a 2009 scholarly volume on the field's revolution devoted half its papers to him alone. In 1667 he converted to Catholicism, and his interest in natural science collapsed almost overnight, overtaken by theology. He was ordained a priest on Easter Sunday 1675, four months after deciding on the priesthood, then appointed Vicar Apostolic of Nordic Missions and Titular Bishop of Titopolis, spending his final years advancing the Counter-Reformation in Northern Germany. He died on 25 November 1686; the Church beatified him in 1988.
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