Nicolaus Steno
1638-1686
Danish anatomist and geologist, also known as Niels Steensen (or Stensen), whose landmark treatise The Prodromus of Nicolaus Steno's Dissertation Concerning a Solid Bod...
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Nicolaus Steno
1631-1687
Danish Anatomist, Naturalist, and Physician
Nicolaus Steno was one of the great scientists of the seventeenth century. Best known today for his views on fossils and as the fou...
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Steno, Nicolas (1638-1686)
Danish geologist and anatomist
The son of a Copenhagen goldsmith, Nicolas Steno had a short but varied scientific career. His given name was Niels Stensen, but he is general...
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The Danish naturalist Nicolaus Steno (1638-1686) established the law of superposition and the law of constancy of interfacial angles.Nicolaus Steno, originally Niels Stensen, the son of a goldsmith, w...
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Niels Stenson, also known as Nicalaus Steno, was born in Copenhagen on January 1, 1638, and died in Schwerin, northern Germany in 1686. The son of a well-to-do goldsmith, Steno studied first in Copenh...
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Nicolaus Steno
Steno, Nicolas (1638-1686)
Nicolaus Steno
Niels Stensen