The Prodromus of Nicolaus Steno's Dissertation Concerning a Solid Body Enclosed by Process of Nature Within a Solid; an English Version With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes

by Nicolaus Steno, John Garrett Winter

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154 pages, Paperback

First published August 8, 2015

Reviews

[Paul · Rating 3 out of 5]

I only read Steno's text, so I am not commenting on the voluminous front matter. If you're reading this it's for the historical interest in what the embryonic study of geology was like in the seventeenth century... and boy is it painful, stilted, awkward, the works: a tortured quest for general principles when there were nowhere *near* enough observations to hand for any one person to make them.