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IN the galaxy of genius that glowed in the still dark sky of the seventeenth century some spots shone forth more bright than others, and the keener vision and greater knowledge of later times has detected there stars of surpassing brilliancy. It was a period of great intellectual activity, and there was much independence of thought and freedom of research. In natural science this was quickly felt, and in Italy—elastic Italy!—that first rebounds to every movement, the results were soon made visible. It is not always in the heaving mass itself we first detect it; a foreign body resting on the surface sometimes more clearly indicates the motion. So in the country of Frascatoro, Scilla, Cardano, Cesalpino, Imperati, Aldrovandi, it was a Dane who first put geological Science into shape.
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HUGHES, T. Steno 1 . Nature 25, 484–486 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/025484c0
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