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    Niels Steensen (Danish: Niels Steensen; Latinized to Nicolas Steno or Nicolaus Stenonius); 1 January 1638 – 25 November 1686 [NS: 11 January 1638 – 5...
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    anatomy and surgery at Leiden University where his students included Nicolaus Steno. Van Horne was born in Amsterdam in a Flemish merchant family. His father...
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    JSTOR 41339844. Nicolaus Steno (Latinized name of Niels Steensen) with John Garrett Winter, trans., The Prodromus of Nicolaus Steno's Dissertation Concerning...
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  • Steensen (also known as Nicolaus Steno), who is recognized internationally for his effort in the field of geological science. Steno (1638–1686) made groundbreaking...
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    179..222S. doi:10.1144/jgs2020-222. ISSN 0016-7649. S2CID 236285974. Steno, Nicolaus (1669). Nicolai Stenonis de solido intra solidvm natvraliter contento...
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    similar applications of mathematics in nature during a collaboration with Nicolaus Steno. In 1639, Viviani moved to Galileo's home in Arcetri to assist him in...
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    Germany. Swammerdam traveled to Copenhagen to visit the mother of Nicolaus Steno, but was back in Amsterdam in early 1676. In a letter to Henry Oldenburg...
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    Publishing, 2004, p. 116, ISBN 140511164X Kardel, Troels, ed. (2013). Nicolaus Steno: Biography and Original Papers of a 17th Century Scientist. Berlin:...
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    Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF), formerly known as Steno-Fallot tetralogy, is a congenital heart defect characterized by four specific cardiac defects. Classically...
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    may be disturbed by later earth movements. This law was proposed by Nicolaus Steno in the mid-17th century. Law of Superposition: general law upon which...
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