The seashell on the mountaintop : a story of science, sainthood, and the humble genius who discovere...
The seashell on the mountaintop : a story of science, sainthood, and the humble genius who discovere...
The seashell on the mountaintop : a story of science, sainthood, and the humble genius who discovered a new history of the earth / Alan Cutler.
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New York : Dutton, 2003.
Date
2003.
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N550.9032/1
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English
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p. cm.
Contents
Prologue: Pilgrims -- Ch. 1. Seashells -- Ch. 2. Chaos -- Ch. 3. The Anatomist -- Ch. 4. The Testimony of Things -- Ch. 5. Tongues of Stone -- Ch. 6. Secret Knots -- Ch. 7. Testing the Waters -- Ch. 8. Conversion -- Ch. 9. Layer by Layer -- Ch. 10. De Solido -- Ch. 11. The Six Faces of Tuscany -- Ch...
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New York : Dutton, 2003.
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New York (State)
Date Published
2003.
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"How did fossils of seashells find their way far inland, sometimes high up into the mountains? Nicolaus Steno, the man whom Stephen Jay Gould called "the founder of geology," 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 o...
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The seashell on the mountaintop : a story of science, sainthood, and the humble genius who discovered a new history of the earth / Alan Cutler.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N550.9032/1
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0525947086 (alk. paper)
9780525947080 (alk. paper)
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550.9032
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