NICOLAUS See also:

• NICOLAUS STENO (1631-1686)

STENO (1631-1686)  , Danish naturalist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• COPENHAGEN (Danish Kjobenhavn)

Copenhagen in 1631, and studied See also:

• MEDICINE

medicine and See also:

• ANATOMY
• ANATOMY (Gr. avaroyil, from ava-silo c', to cut up)

anatomy in that See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city and in See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris . After a See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period of travel he settled in See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy (1666) at first as See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of anatomy at See also:

• PADUA (Lat. Patavium ; Ital. Padova)

Padua, and then in See also:

• FLORENCE
• FLORENCE (Ital. Firenze, Lat. Florentia)

Florence as See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house-physician to the See also:

• GRAND

grand-See also:

• DUKE (corresponding to Fr. duc, Ital. duca, Ger. Herzog)

duke See also:

• FERDINAND
• FERDINAND (1577-1650)
• FERDINAND (COLOGNE)
• FERDINAND (Span. Fernando or Hernando; Ital. Ferdinando or Ferrante; in O. H. Ger. Herinand, i.e. " brave in the host," from O. H. G. Heri, "army," A. S. here, Mod. Ger. Heer, and the Goth. nan]jan, " to dare ")
• FERDINAND, MAXIMILIAN KARL LEOPOLD MARIA

Ferdinand II. of See also:

• TUSCANY
• TUSCANY (Toscana)

Tuscany . He returned to his native city in 1672 to become professor of anatomy, but, having become a See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic, he found it expedient to return to Florence, and was ultimately made apostolic See also:

• VICAR (Lat. vicarius, substitute)

vicar of See also:

• LOWER

Lower See also:

• SAXONY
• SAXONY (Ger. Provinz Sachsen)

Saxony . He died at See also:

• SCHWERIN
• SCHWERIN, KURT CHRISTOPH, COUNT VON (1684–1757)

Schwerin in See also:

• MECKLENBURG

Mecklenburg, on the 25th of See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1686 . His fame rests on De solid() infra solidum naturaliter contento, published at Florence in 1669 . In this notable See also:

• WORK

work See also:

• STENO, NICOLAUS (1631-1686)

Steno described various gems, minerals and petrif actions (fossils) enclosed within solid rocks . He compared the fossil with the living organisms, and distinguished marine and fluviatile formations . He argued also in favour of the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original horizontality of sedimentary deposits . See Di Nicola Stenone e dei suoi studii geologici in Italia, by G . Capellini (1870) ; K . A. von See also:

• ZITTEL, KARL ALFRED VON (1839–1904)

Zittel's See also:

• HISTORY

History of See also:

• GEOLOGY (from Gr. yp7, the earth, and Abyor, science)

Geology and Palaeontology (Eng. ed., 1901) ; and W . J .

Sollas, in See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

Science Progress for See also:

• JAN

Jan . 1898 .