Nicholas Steno's Chaos and the shaping of evolutionary thought in the Scientific Revolution

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Research Article| September 01, 2006 Nicholas Steno's Chaos and the shaping of evolutionary thought in the Scientific Revolution Gary D. Rosenberg Gary D. Rosenberg 1Department of Earth Sciences, Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis, 723 West Michigan Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202-5132, USA Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Author and Article Information Gary D. Rosenberg 1Department of Earth Sciences, Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis, 723 West Michigan Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202-5132, USA Publisher: Geological Society of America Received: 09 Feb 2006 Revision Received: 06 Apr 2006 Accepted: 11 Apr 2006 First Online: 09 Mar 2017 Online ISSN: 1943-2682 Print ISSN: 0091-7613 Geological Society of America Geology (2006) 34 (9): 793–796. https://doi.org/10.1130/G22655.1 Article history Received: 09 Feb 2006 Revision Received: 06 Apr 2006 Accepted: 11 Apr 2006 First Online: 09 Mar 2017 Cite View This Citation Add to Citation Manager Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Search Site Citation Gary D. Rosenberg; Nicholas Steno's Chaos and the shaping of evolutionary thought in the Scientific Revolution. Geology 2006;; 34 (9): 793–796. doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/G22655.1 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Refmanager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentBy SocietyGeology Search Advanced Search Abstract Nicholas Steno (1638–1686) compiled a notebook in 1659 when he was a student at the University of Copenhagen. Titled Chaos by Steno, it remains unstudied in English-speaking countries, despite having been translated in 1997. Chaos adds important insight into geology's place in the Scientific Revolution. It shows Steno disengaging from speculations about the cosmos based on the ruling paradigms of Aristotelian metaphysics and Cartesian misconceptions in favor of an empirical model based on the new mathematics of geometry applied to all of nature, from what we now would consider the atomic level, to the human body, and to the planet. Steno thereby earns heretofore unacknowledged credit for helping to establish the geometric definition of form that makes it possible to understand the evolution of the structure of organisms as well as of the planet. You do not have access to this content, please speak to your institutional administrator if you feel you should have access.

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