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Nicholas Steno |
 | | Steno was also elected to the Accademia del Cimento (Experimental Academy), a body of researchers inspired by Galileo's experimental and mathematical approach to science. |
| | Steno's anatomical studies focused at first on the muscular system and the nature of muscle contraction -- for example, he used geometry to show that a contracting muscle changes its shape but not its volume. |
| | Steno's contemporaries Robert Hooke and John Ray also argued that fossils were the remains of once-living organisms. |
| www.ucmp.berkeley.edu /history/steno.html (1488 words) |
