The Prodromus of Nicolaus Steno’s Dissertation Concerning a Solid Body Enclosed by Process of Nature Within a Solid
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discussed in biography
- In Nicolaus Steno
…Naturaliter Contento Dissertationis Prodromus (The Prodromus of Nicolaus Steno’s Dissertation Concerning a Solid Body Enclosed by Process of Nature Within a Solid). In this work, a milestone in the literature of geology, he laid the foundations of the science of crystallography. He reported that, although quartz crystals differ greatly…
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law of superposition
- In law of superposition
…Naturaliter Contento Dissertationis Prodomus (1669; The Prodromus of Nicolaus Steno’s Dissertation Concerning a Solid Body Enclosed by Process of Nature Within a Solid). It is one of the great general principles of geology.
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study of geochronology
- In geochronology: The principle of superposition of rock strata
…Steno published his noted treatise The Prodromus of Nicolaus Steno’s Dissertation Concerning a Solid Body Enclosed by Process of Nature Within a Solid, a seminal work that laid the essential framework for the science of geology by showing in very simple fashion that the layered rocks of Tuscany exhibit sequential…
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