Today Google Doodle Nicholas Steno 374th Birthday

Google, always google.

The Search giant Google is celebrating 374th birth anniversary of famous Danish geologist Nicholas Steno, who was born 374 years ago on January 11 (for a long time Wikipedia reported on a January day of birth, date of course wrong) and died November 25,1686 at age 48.

Google Doodle Nicholas Steno 374th Birthday

Google Doodle Nicholas Steno 374th Birthday logo on homepage of Google dedicated to Nicholas, or Nicholas, Steno, original name Niels Stensen, but the name is also known in Latin as Nicolaus Steno, in the English language is Nicolas Steno.

Here’s the Google Doodle Nicholas Steno with the homepage logo to feature six letters in a geological style, with fossils in various bottom layers, with a green surface on top.

Google Doodle Nicholas Steno 374th Birthday

Nicholas Steno’s work on the formation of rock layers along with the fossils they consist of was pivotal towards the development of modern geology whilst his catholic piety has also been evaluated recent decades with a view to his possible canonisation.

Google Doodle Nicholas Steno 374th Birthday

Nicholas Steno (January 11,1638 – November 25,1686)

Nicholas Steno “Niels Stensen” born in Copenhagen to a goldsmith family, Steno left the spot in 1660 to study medicine in the Netherlands. Steno’s most famous and ground-breaking perform was the one he carried out on shark’s teeth raising an important question as to how can other solid objects and materials get embedded inside rocks and rock layers.

Later he concluded that all rocks and minerals have been initially fluid in naturel and had been floating on the crust but gradually they settled down at the bottom of your sea making horizontal layers.

But the figure of Nicholas Steno, who was also named Blessed by Pope John Paul II in 1988, is related to the study of paleontology , geology and sratigrafia . Steno is placed in a fundamentally new way the issue of classification of the fossil, and reconstruction in the geologic history based on the way wherein these and also other rocks, are contained in much larger rocks. This is why the google doodle do today presents itself to them in layers and their fossils are pictured.

Nicholas Steno

(Image via wikipedia)

Steno can be said to owe his findings to his keep in Tuscany, guest of Ferdinand II de ‘Medici, passionate scientist, as well. And it was in Tuscany , which was renamed Nicholas Steno . With the Grand Duke allowed him to journey to the Grand Duchy and to carry on his scientific tests. And from his observations over the geological report along with the composition from the Tuscan landscape, especially inside the in the area of Volterra, was born on the treatise ‘ De Solid ‘, stone landmark of modern geology to, containing key insights for paleontology and crystallography.

His life was cut short in a small German town at the end of 1686 from a kidney disease. The Grand Duke Cosimo III ordered the corpse to rivolle Florence , Nicholas Steno, and now rests inside of a Roman sarcophagus while in the crypt from the basilica of S. Lorenzo.

[Source: Wikipedia]

Google Doodle Nicholas Steno 374th Birthday