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    Niels Steensen (Danish: Niels Steensen; Latinized to Nicolas Steno or Nicolaus Stenonius; 1 January 1638 – 25 November 1686 [NS: 11 January 1638 – 5 December...
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  • Look up steno in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Steno may refer to: Steno, Salamis, a small community at the northwest of Salamis Island, Greece Stenography...
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  • managing diabetes, located in Gentofte, Denmark. It is named after Nicolas Steno (Niels Steensen, 1638–1686). The center was established in 1991 as a...
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    January 2025. Steno, Nicolas (1669). De solido intra solidum naturaliter contento (in Latin). Florence: Star. Retrieved 8 January 2025. Steno, Nicolaus (1916)...
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    geologist Nicolas Steno. Planimetric map of Station 1, near the northwest rim of Steno. Photo taken from Geology Station 1 of the rim of Steno crater, at...
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    of superposition was first proposed in 1669 by the Danish scientist Nicolas Steno, and is present as one of his major theses in the groundbreaking seminal...
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    the northwest of Steno is Appleton, and to the east is Nušl. The crater was named after the 17th century Danish astronomer Nicolas Steno. This is a worn...
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    Kollegium and is noted for being the influential instructor of scientist Nicolas Steno. Borch was born at Nørre Bork in the Diocese of Ribe, Denmark. He was...
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    (1027) on the concept of stratification and superposition, pre-dating Nicolas Steno by more than six centuries. Avicenna also recognized fossils as "petrifications...
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    Nicole Oresme, Jean Buridan, Robert Grosseteste, Christopher Clavius, Nicolas Steno, Athanasius Kircher, Giovanni Battista Riccioli, and William of Ockham...
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    allow for imaging of the parotid duct. The parotid duct is named after Nicolas Steno (1638–1686), also known as Niels Stensen, a Danish anatomist (albeit...
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    ability of quartz to split light into a spectrum. In the 17th century, Nicolas Steno's study of quartz paved the way for modern crystallography. He discovered...
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    back as the early 1800s. A Danish scientist and bishop by the name of Nicolas Steno was one of the first geologists to recognize that rock layers correlate...
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  • by looking so far into the abyss of time". Early geologists such as Nicolas Steno and Horace Bénédict de Saussure had developed ideas of geological strata...
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    lithostratigraphy were first established by the Danish naturalist, Nicolas Steno, in his 1669 Dissertationis prodromus. A lithostratigraphic unit conforms...
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    indices." The law of constancy of interfacial angles, first observed by Nicolas Steno,: 44  (De solido intra solidum naturaliter contento, Florence, 1669)...
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  • Georgius Agricola is considered the 'father of mineralogy'. Nicolas Steno founded the stratigraphy (the study of rock layers (strata) and layering (stratification))...
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    different time periods in the geologic time scale. During the 17th century, Nicolas Steno was the first to observe and propose a number of basic principles of...
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    Arthur Moritz Schönflies Dan Shechtman George M. Sheldrick Tej P. Singh Nicolas Steno Constance Tipper Daniel Vorländer Christian Samuel Weiss Don Craig Wiley...
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  • chemical element to be discovered that was not known since ancient times. Nicolas Steno puts forward his theory that sedimentary strata had been deposited in...
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    composition throughout. An important pioneer in the science was Nicolas Steno. Steno was trained in the classical texts on science; however, by 1659 he...
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    their deposition sequence, as first determined on terrestrial strata by Nicolas Steno. For example, stratigraphic mapping prepared the Apollo astronauts for...
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  • Schneider (born 1987), Canadian actor Niels Steensen, also known as Nicolas Steno (1638–1686), Danish scientist and Catholic bishop Niels Treschow (1751–1833)...
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  • Willis publishes Pathologicae Cerebri, et nervosi generis specimen. Nicolas Steno publishes Elementorum Myologiae Specimen, seu Musculi Descriptio Geometrica...
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  • Memorial 7 October: Saint Brigitta, religious – Feast 25 November: Blessed Nicolas Steno, bishop – Optional Memorial According to the Calendrier propre à la...
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  • Thermodynamics Jožef Stefan and Ludwig Boltzmann Steno's law Mineralogy, crystallography Nicolas Steno Stokes' law Fluid mechanics George Gabriel Stokes...
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  • Nemesia (Giulia) Valle 1916 2004 Nicholas Bunkerd Kitbamrung 1944 2000 Nicolas Steno 1686 1988 Nicolò Rusca 1618 2013 Notker the Stammerer 912 1512 Nykyta...
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  • drift theory. 1603 – Ulisse Aldrovandi coins the term Geology. 1669 – Nicolas Steno puts forward his theory that sedimentary strata had been deposited in...
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    Medici (Sagrestia Nuova) Piero di Cosimo de' Medici (Sagrestia Vecchia) Nicolas Steno Medici Chapel History of medieval Arabic and Western European domes...
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  • Evangelier og Epistler paa Sondage og alle hellige Dage 1 January – Nicolas Steno, scientist (died 1686) 25 February – Jørgen Iversen Dyppel, governor...
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