Talk:Nicolas Steno

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- Steno's basic geological principles are still widely in use today.

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I don't think this sentence is referenced, so I will delete it.

(Possibly, his remarkable insight in geology made him realise that the formation of the Earth's strata could not be brought into agreement with the creation stories in Genesis - stories which nobody at the time dared to question.)

-user:haow 5:29, 4/10/06