Nicolas Steno
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Person
- Born
- 1638-01-11
- Died
- 1686-12-05
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5 total works indexed
- Classification of Surgical Complications
· 2004 · cited 27,676x
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 22,451x
- Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 12,959x
- End-to-End Object Detection with Transformers
· 2020 · cited 12,581x
- The Clavien-Dindo Classification of Surgical Complications
· 2009 · cited 10,158x
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Key facts
- See
- Titiopolis
- Appointed
- 21 August 1677 , by Pope Innocent XI
- Term ended
- 25 November 1686
- Predecessor
- Valerio Maccioni
- Successor
- Friedrich von Tietzen
- Other post
- Titular Bishop of Titiopolis
- Previous post
- Auxiliary Bishop of Münster (1680–1683)
- Ordination
- 13 April 1675
- Consecration
- 19 September 1677, by Saint Gregorio Barbarigo
- Born
- Niels Steensen , ( 1638-01-01 ) 1 January 1638, [ NS : 11 January 1638 ] , Copenhagen , Denmark-Norway
- Died
- 25 November 1686 (1686-11-25) (aged 48), [ NS : 5 December 1686 ] , Schwerin , Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- Buried
- Basilica of San Lorenzo , Florence , Duchy of Florence
Key dates
- Born
- 11 January 1638
- Died
- 5 December 1686
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Niels
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Danish Realm
- Place of birth
- Copenhagen
- Place of death
- Schwerin
- Occupation
- auxiliary bishop
- Educated at
- University of Copenhagen
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- Danish
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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 December 1686]) was a Danish scientist, a pioneer in both anatomy and geology who became a Catholic bishop in his later years. He has been beatified by the Catholic Church.
Steensen was trained in the classical texts on science; however, by 1659, he seriously questioned accepted knowledge of the natural world. Importantly he questioned explanations for tear production, the idea that fossils grew in the ground and explanations of rock formation. His investigations and his subsequent conclusions on fossils and rock formation have led scholars to consider him one of the founders of modern stratigraphy and modern geology. The importance of Steensen's foundational contributions to geology may be gauged from the fact that half of the twenty papers in a 2009 miscellany volume on The Revolution in Geology from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment focus on Steensen, the "preeminent Baroque polymath and founder of modern geologic thought".
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