The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius Who Discovered a New History of the Earth
Documents the work of a seventeenth-century scientist and priest who was the first to conduct geological studies of the earth's layers, revealing in the process the planet's significant age as compared to biblical beliefs. 22,500 first printing.
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'...insightful, entertaining and beautifully produced.' -- Sunday Telegraph
'Alan Cutler fluidly and elegantly charts the birthing pains of geology...' -- Daily Telegraph
...it makes your wrestle with the unwillingness shown by people, however intelligent, to accept the evidence of their own eyes -- Daily Mail
Delightful... Cutler has managed to make whole cloth out of the vague threads of the Steno story... -- Simon Winchester (in the Boston Globe)
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'Alan Cutler fluidly and elegantly charts the birthing pains of geology...' -- Daily Telegraph
...it makes your wrestle with the unwillingness shown by people, however intelligent, to accept the evidence of their own eyes -- Daily Mail
Delightful... Cutler has managed to make whole cloth out of the vague threads of the Steno story... -- Simon Winchester (in the Boston Globe)
The extraordinary story of the 17th century Danish geologist Steno, who was the first man to claim that the earth must be older than the Bible claimed, forever changing Western civilisation's ideas of time and undermining biblical authority, yet ended his life a Catholic bishop.
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- PublisherHighbridge Co
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 1565116372
- ISBN 13 9781565116375
- BindingAudio Cassette
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