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NICOLAUS See also: born at See also: Copenhagen in 1631, and studied See also: medicine and anatomy in that city and in See also: Paris
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After a See also: period of travel he settled in See also: Italy (1666) at first as professor of anatomy at See also: Padua, and then in Florence as See also: house-physician to the See also: grand-duke See also: Ferdinand II. of
See also: Tuscany
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He returned to his native city in 1672 to become professor of anatomy, but, having become a See also: Roman Catholic, he found it expedient to return to Florence, and was ultimately made apostolic See also: vicar of See also: Lower See also: Saxony
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He died at Schwerin in See also: Mecklenburg, on the 25th of See also: November 1686
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His fame rests on De solid() infra solidum naturaliter contento, published at Florence in 1669
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In this notable See also: work See also: Steno described various gems, minerals and petrif actions (fossils) enclosed within solid rocks
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He compared the fossil with the living organisms, and distinguished marine and fluviatile formations
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He argued also in favour of the See also: original horizontality of sedimentary deposits
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See Di Nicola Stenone e dei suoi studii geologici in Italia, by G
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Capellini (1870) ; K
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A. von See also: Zittel's See also: History of Geology and Palaeontology (Eng. ed., 1901) ; and W
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J
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Sollas, in Science Progress forSee also: Jan
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1898
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