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Niels Stensen est un anatomiste, géologue et évêque d'origine danoise, né le 11 janvier 1638 à Copenhague et mort le 26 novembre 1686 à Schwerin en Allemagne. Il fut l'un des premiers à formuler des principes en géologie, branche alors peu connue des sciences naturelles. Le plus connu d'entre eux est le principe de superposition, d'après lequel la couche supérieure d'une succession sédimentaire est toujours plus récente que les couches sous-jacentes, à moins de remaniements ultérieurs.

Sa vie est en grande partie marquée par son conflit personnel entre les explications religieuses des phénomènes naturels ayant cours et les découvertes scientifiques qu'il fit en ce domaine. Il est déclaré bienheureux par Jean-Paul II le 23 octobre 1988. Sa devise était : « Exactitude de l'expérience, résultats reproductibles ». Wikipedia  

✵ 11. janvier 1638 – 5. décembre 1686
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“Beautiful is what we see, More Beautiful is what we know, most Beautiful by far is what we don't.”

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Nicolas Steno

quoted by Addison Anderson in a TED-Ed lesson. https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-most-groundbreaking-scientist-you-ve-never-heard-of-addison-anderson

“There are those among us who would have us say that the mysteries of the brain are completely solved and little needs to be added to its knowledge. It is as if these fortunate persons had been present when this magnificent organ was created.”

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Nicolas Steno

quoted in Minds Behind the Brain. A History of the Pioneers and Their Discoveries by S. Finger, 2000

“We need only view a Dissection of that large Mass, the Brain, to have ground to bewail our Ignorance…We admire…the Fibres of every Muscle, and ought still more to admire their disposition in the Brain, where an infinite number of them contained in a very small Space, do each execute their particular Offices without confusion or disorder.”

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Nicolas Steno

quoted in Minds Behind the Brain. A History of the Pioneers and Their Discoveries by S. Finger (Introduction; A Voyage Across time) (2000)

“In the case of those solids, whether of earth, or rock, which enclose on all sides and contain crystals, selenites, marcasites, plants and their parts, bones and the shells of animals, and other bodies of this kind which are possessed of a smooth surface, these same bodies had already become hard at the time when the matter of the earth and rock containing them was still fluid. And not only did the earth and rock not produce the bodies contained in them, but they did not even exist as such when those bodies were produced in them.”

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Nicolas Steno

The Prodromus of Nicolaus Steno's Dissertation Concerning a Solid https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/54340#/summary : (Page 217)

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