Name: 【TED-Ed】 The most groundbreaking scientist you've never heard of - Addison Anderson
Uploaded: 2014-12-29T19:07:10.000Z
Duration: 4 min 33 s

but anyone hoping to understand life on Earth

should see how Steno expanded and connected

都應該看看斯蒂諾如何擴充及連結

他的丹麥語名為尼爾斯·斯滕森 於 1638 年在丹麥出生

Most remarkable for the time was his method.

在當時最值得注意的是他的方法

overrule empirical, experimental evidence.

His vision, uncluttered by speculation or rationalization,

他的洞察力不被臆測或理性限制

其形成的方式與他從金匠行業中

是存在於其他石頭內的奇怪石頭

in Malta and the mountains near Florence.

在馬爾他及佛羅倫斯附近的山上可見

Steno saw that tongue stones were shark teeth

斯蒂諾發現舌石其實是鯊魚的牙齒

with the same signs of structural growth.

因為它們有相同的構造生長徵象

Figuring similar things are made in similar ways,

他認為類似事物應有類似的生成方法

應該是從在水中的古代鯊魚而來

in waters that formed rock around the teeth

Rock layers were once layers of watery sediment,

這種變化是在岩層形成後才發生

藉由發現兩個不同年代的 鯊魚牙齒有同一起源

By finding one origin for shark teeth from two eras

by stating natural laws ruling the present

Steno planted seeds for uniformitarianism,

the idea that the past was shaped by processes

and realized the Earth had to be way older

than the biblical guestimate, 6000 years.

to give us the great molten-crusting, quaking,

from a gallstone to a 4.5 billion-year-old planet.

埋愈深的化石年代愈老，對嗎？

of the origin and extinction of species over time.

導致岩石產生變化，生命也有變化

caused changes not just in rocks but in life.

It might also explain similarities and differences

在往加拉巴哥群島的漫長旅途中

reading a copy of his friend Charles Lyell's

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【TED-Ed】 The most groundbreaking scientist you've never heard of - Addison Anderson

evidence

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