{"id":37786,"date":"2017-10-06T09:04:51","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T08:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=37786"},"modified":"2020-08-07T07:38:48","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T06:38:48","slug":"steno-nicolas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/steno-nicolas\/","title":{"rendered":"Steno, Nicolas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nicolas<\/strong><strong> S<\/strong><strong>teno <\/strong><strong>(1631\/8-1686) <\/strong>was a Danish scientist who had an interest in anatomy, but more <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Steno-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-37788\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Steno-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"247\" \/><\/a>particularly geology, in which field he is considered by some to be <em>&#8216;the father of stratigraphy&#8217; <\/em>being the first to clearly outline the three basic principles of stratigraphy: superposition, original horizontality and lateral continuity <sup>(b) <\/sup>. Nevertheless, David King has noted in his excellent book, <em>Finding Atlantis<\/em><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/k-l\/\">530<\/a>.55]<\/sup> how <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/olof-rudbeck-amended\/\">Olof Rudbeck <\/a>had developed his own version of stratigraphy during the same period.<\/p>\n<p>In his later years, although he came from a Lutheran background, Steno became a Catholic priest and later a bishop,\u00a0 during which stage, he developed an interest in theology. Steno is now on his way to becoming a saint having been beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1988.<\/p>\n<p>Steno believed in the existence of Atlantis, but did not elaborate on its location<sup>(a)<\/sup>. <em>For in those accounts (of the ancients) I find many things of which the falsity rather than the truth seems doubtful to me. Such are the separation of the Mediterranean Sea from the western ocean; the passage from the Mediterranean into the Red Sea; and the submersion of the island Atlantis.<\/em><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/s\/\">1503<\/a>]<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/creation.com\/geological-pioneer-nicolaus-steno-was-a-biblical-creationist\">https:\/\/creation.com\/geological-pioneer-nicolaus-steno-was-a-biblical-creationist<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><sup>(b)<\/sup> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&gt;<\/span><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200302223241\/https:\/\/homepage.smc.edu\/grippo_alessandro\/gss1.html\">https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200302223241\/https:\/\/homepage.smc.edu\/grippo_alessandro\/gss1.html<\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&lt; <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">(Seven parts)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicolas Steno (1631\/8-1686) was a Danish scientist who had an interest in anatomy, but more particularly geology, in which field he is considered by some to be &#8216;the father of stratigraphy&#8217; being the first to clearly outline the three basic principles of stratigraphy: superposition, original horizontality and lateral continuity (b) . Nevertheless, David King has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5454],"class_list":["post-37786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-nicolas-steno"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45811,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37786\/revisions\/45811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}