[PDF.22tz] The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science Sainthood and the Humble Genius Who Discovered a New History of the Earth

The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science Sainthood and the Humble Genius Who Discovered a New History of the Earth

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 | #1267318 in Books |  Dutton Adult |  2003-04-28 |  2003-04-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.60 x.93 x5.92l, | File type: PDF | 240 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Earliest scholar of earth history.|By Sam Collins|Readable, well written account of the early, mostly unknown scholar who first published the basic insights that allow interpretation of earth history from study of sedimentary layers in earth structures. Fossil sea creatures had been recognized as oddities, incongruities occurring high above sea level, even on mountain tops, f|From Publishers Weekly|Science writer Cutler (a contributing editor to The Forces of Change: A New View of Nature) re-creates a fascinating 17th-century world of political and religious upheaval and the progress achieved by curious scientists like the Danish ana

In the bestselling tradition of The Map that Changed the World and Longitude comes the tale of a seventeenth-century scientist-turned-priest who forever changed our understanding of the Earth and created a new field of science.

It was an ancient puzzle that stymied history's greatest minds: How did the fossils of seashells find their way far inland, sometimes high up into the mountains? Fossils only made sense in a world old enough to form them, ...

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