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Seashell on the Mountaintop : A Story of Science, Sainthood and the Humble Genius Who Discovered a New History of the Earth by Alan Cutler (Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHeinemann

ISBN-100434008575

ISBN-139780434008575

eBay Product ID (ePID)43997741

Product Key Features

Educational LevelHigh School, Elementary School

Number of Pages240 Pages

Publication NameSeashell on the Mountaintop : A Story of Science, Sainthood and the Humble Genius Who Discovered a New History of the Earth

LanguageEnglish

SubjectEarth Sciences / Geology, Science & Technology

TypeStudy Guide

Subject AreaScience, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorAlan Cutler

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight12.7 Oz

Item Length8.8 in

Item Width5.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceElementary/High School

LCCN2004-426388

Dewey Edition21

TitleLeadingThe

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal550/.9/032

SynopsisDubbed the founder of modern geology by Stephen Jay Gould, the 17th-century Danish scientist Nicolaus Steno was the first man to discover deep time: to suggest that the existence of fossils, particularly those far away from where the animals of which they are the remains would have lived (the seashell on the mountaintop) demanded a much longer history for the Earth than the roughly 6000 years suggested by the Bible. Steno's work was ignored for over a century: he himself dropped his geological studies without completing a university dissertation; he converted to Catholicism and later became a bishop; in 1988 he was beatified by Pope John Paul I.

LC Classification NumberQE22.S77C88 2003