Author: Gustav ScherzPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Nicolaus Steno and his Indice
Author: Gustav ScherzNicolaus Steno and His Indice
Author: Gustav ScherzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Nicolaus Steno
Author: Troels KardelPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3662550474
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 943
Book Description
This is by far the most exhaustive biography on Niels Stensen, anatomist, geologist and bishop, better known as "Nicolaus Steno". We learn about the scientist’s family and background in Lutheran Denmark, of his teachers at home and abroad, of his studies and travels in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Bohemia and Germany, of his many pioneering achievements in anatomy and geology, of his encounters with Swammerdam, Malpighi and with members of the newly established Royal Society of London and the Accademia del Cimento in Florence, and with the philosopher Spinoza. It further treats Stensen’s religious conversion. The book includes the full set of Steno's anatomical and geological scientific papers in original language. The editors thoroughly translated the original Latin text to English, and included numerous footnotes on the background of this bibliographic and scientific treasure from the 17th century.
The Revolution in Geology from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
Author: Gary D. RosenbergPublisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813712033
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Seashell on the Mountaintop
Author: Alan CutlerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780525947080
Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The life and accomplishments of a 17th-century scientist-turned-priest are explored in this story of science, sainthood, and the humble genius who forever changed the understanding of the Earth and created a new science: geology.
Nicolaus Steno, 1638-1686
Author: Jacob E. PoulsenPublisher:
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Category : Anatomists
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Steno on Muscles
Author: Troels KardelPublisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9780871698414
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
A main work on muscular action, the "Elements of Myology," by the Danish anatomist Niels Stensen (1638-1686) was written at a time when the teachings of Hippocrates, Erasistratus, Aristotle, & Galen were still the foundations upon which scholarly learning on the human body were built. In this work as in several other areas of research, Stensen described a structure vs. time relation as a dynamic process. From macroscopic observations of a number of muscles in several animal species, he described the contraction of compound muscles arranged in unipennate structures with an angle between muscle fibers & tendons. He found that the observed swelling of a muscle during contraction was not an argument for an expansion of its volume. Contents of this study: (1) Stensen's Myology in HIsotrical Perspective, by Troels Kardel, M.D.; & (2) Translations of Niels Stensen's "New Structure of the Muscles & Heart" (1663) & "Specimen of Elements of Myology" (1667) with Facsimile of First Editions" annotated by Harriet Hansen, M.A., & Aug. Ziggelaar, S.J., Ph.D. Reprint. Illus.
Niels Stensen, 1638-1686
Author: Hans KermitPublisher: Gracewing Publishing
ISBN: 9780852445839
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Niels Stensen was born in Copenhagen in 1638. He worked in several European countries, and his work brought him an international reputation in the field of anatomy, and as a founder of the scientific study of both geology and paleontology. One of the greatest scientists of his age, itself the era of many of the giants of scientific discovery.
A Natural History of Time
Author: Pascal RichetPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226712893
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
The quest to pinpoint the age of the Earth is nearly as old as humanity itself. For most of history, people trusted mythology or religion to provide the answer, even though nature abounds with clues to the past of the Earth and the stars. In A Natural History of Time, geophysicist Pascal Richet tells the fascinating story of how scientists and philosophers examined those clues and from them built a chronological scale that has made it possible to reconstruct the history of nature itself. Richet begins his story with mythological traditions, which were heavily influenced by the seasons and almost uniformly viewed time cyclically. The linear history promulgated by Judaism, with its story of creation, was an exception, and it was that tradition that drove early Christian attempts to date the Earth. For instance, in 169 CE, the bishop of Antioch, for instance declared that the world had been in existence for “5,698 years and the odd months and days.” Until the mid-eighteenth century, such natural timescales derived from biblical chronologies prevailed, but, Richet demonstrates, with the Scientific Revolution geological and astronomical evidence for much longer timescales began to accumulate. Fossils and the developing science of geology provided compelling evidence for periods of millions and millions of years—a scale that even scientists had difficulty grasping. By the end of the twentieth century, new tools such as radiometric dating had demonstrated that the solar system is four and a half billion years old, and the universe itself about twice that, though controversial questions remain. The quest for time is a story of ingenuity and determination, and like a geologist, Pascal Richet carefully peels back the strata of that history, giving us a chance to marvel at each layer and truly appreciate how far our knowledge—and our planet—have come.
Steno and the Philosophers
Author: Mogens LærkePublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004360654
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
An account of the life and works of the Danish scientist and theologian Nicolas Steno (1638-1686), who played a crucial role in the intellectual networks amongst philosophers and natural scientists in the late seventeenth century.
