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Science 4 July 2003:
Vol. 301. no. 5629, p. 51
DOI: 10.1126/science.1086521
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HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
Stratigraphy's Founding Saint

A review by Keith S. Thomson

The Seashell on the Mountaintop A Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius who Discovered a New History of the Earth
Alan Cutler
Dutton (Penguin), New York, 2003. 240 pp. $23.95, C$36. ISBN 0-525-94708-6.

Cutler offers an account of Nicholas Steno and his pioneering contributions to our understanding of fossils, stratigraphy, and Earth History.
The reviewer is at the University Museum, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PW, UK. E-mail: keith.thomson{at}oum.ox.ac.uk

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