The collection is about earth science in the early modern period, when the study of minerals, rocks, and the fossilized remains of living things did not yet form a distinct path to knowledge about earth history, but was an integral part of the wider “philosophy of nature.”

Introduction: Nicolaus Steno and Earth Science in Early Modern Italy – Stefano Dominici, Gary D. Rosenberg

The Opposite Poles of a Debate: Lapides figurati and the Accademia dei Lincei – Alessandro Ottaviani

Dissecting with Numbers: Mathematics in Nicolaus Steno’s Early Anatomical Writings, 1661-64 – Nuno Castel-Branco

Nicolaus Steno on Solutes and Solvents in Time-Related Structural Changes of Muscles, Fossils, Landscapes and Crystals: His Galilean Heritage – Troels Kardel

A Man with a Master Plan: Steno’s Observations on Earth’s History – Stefano Dominici

How Do Crystals Grow? Steno’s Approach – Silvio Menchetti

Steno and the Rock Cycle – Alan H. Cutler

Crystalline Stenonian Time Features from Earth and Beyond – Desmond E. Moser

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