This is by far the most exhaustive biography on Niels Stensen, anatomist, geologist and bishop, better known as "Nicolaus Steno". We learn about the scientist's family and background in Lutheran Denmark, of his teachers at home and abroad, of his studies and travels in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Bohemia and Germany, of his many pioneering achievements in anatomy and geology, of his encounters with Swammerdam, Malpighi and with members of the newly established Royal Society of London and the Accademia del Cimento in Florence, and with the philosopher Spinoza. It further treats Stensen's religious conversion. The book includes the full set of Steno's anatomical and geological scientific papers in original language. The editors thoroughly translated the original Latin text to English, and included numerous footnotes on the background of this bibliographic and scientific treasure from the 17th century.
...MoreReview Bresadola, Marco (2015) Review of "Nicolaus Steno: Biography and Original Papers of a 17th Century Scientist". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 342-343).
Essay Review Totaro, Pina (2015) Stensen as a Man of Science and Culture. Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 77-80).
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Andrault, Raphaële;
Lærke, Mogens;
(2018)
Steno and the Philosophers
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Vai, Gian Battista;
(2009)
The Scientific Revolution and Nicholas Steno's Twofold Conversion
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Hansen, Jens Morten;
(2009)
On the Origin of Natural History: Steno's Modern, but Forgotten Philosophy of Science
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Rosenberg, Gary D.;
(2009)
The Measure of Man and Landscape in the Renaissance and Scientific Revolution
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Ole Rømer;
Fabricius Claus;
Jørgensen Niels Therkel;
Tortzen Chr;
(2023)
Ole Rømer’s Triduum
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Nuno Castel-Branco;
(2021)
Dissecting with numbers: mathematics in Nicolaus Steno’s early anatomical writings, 1661-64
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Alex Benjamin Shillito;
(2019)
How the Heart Became Muscle: From René Descartes to Nicolas Steno
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Stefano, Waldir;
dos Reis, Mariana Inglez;
(2013)
Os primórdios da paleontologia moderna: as investigações de Steno sobre fósseis e estratos
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Olden-Jørgensen, Sebastian;
(2009)
Nicholas Steno and René Descartes: A Cartesian Perspective on Steno's Scientific Development
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Nuno Castel-Branco;
(2022)
Who Was Borelli Responding to? Nicolaus Steno in De motu animalium (Rome, 1680-1681)
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Meli, Domenico Bertoloni;
(2008)
The Collaboration between Anatomists and Mathematicians in the Mid-Seventeenth Century with a Study of Images as Experiments and Galileo's Role in Steno's Myology
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Troels Kardel;
(2021)
Nicolaus Steno on solutes and solvents in time-related structural changes of muscles, fossils, landscapes and crystals, his Galilean heritage
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Arikha, Noga;
(2006)
Form and Function in the Early Enlightenment
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Bradford A. Bouley;
(2017)
Pious Postmortems: Anatomy, Sanctity, and the Catholic Church in Early Modern Europe
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Andrault, Raphaële;
(2010)
Mathématiser l'anatomie: la myologie de Stensen (1667)
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Kardel, Troels;
(2008)
Nicolaus Steno's New Myology (1667): Rather than Muscle, the Motor Fibre Should Be Called Animal's Organ of Movement
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Nuno Castel-Branco;
(2022)
Physico-mathematics and the life sciences: experiencing the mechanism of venous return, 1650s–1680s
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Kardel, Troels;
Maquet, Paul;
(2013)
Nicolaus Steno: Biography and Original Papers of a Seventeenth-Century Scientist
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Yamada, Toshihiro;
(2006)
Kircher and Steno on the “Geocosm,” with a Reassessment of the Role of Gassendi's Works
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Rosenberg, Gary D.;
(2001)
An Artistic Perspective on the Continuity of Space and the Origin of Modern Geologic Thought
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