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STENSEN, NIELS, also known as Nicolaus Steno
(b. Copenhagen, Denmark, 1%6111 January 1638; d.
Schwerin, Germany, 25 November/5 December
1686), anatomy, geology, mineralogy.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
II. SECONDARY LITERATURE.
G. Scherz, Niels Stensen. Forscher und Denker im Barock
(Stuttgart, 1964). More scholarly works on Stensen
include G. Scherz, Nicolaus Steno and His Indice
(Copenhagen, 1958), with a biography and various
studies of Stensen's work; and Nicolaus Steno and
Brain Research in the Seventeenth Century (London,
1967), from Proceedings of the International Symposium
on N. Steno held in Copenhagen, August 1965.
On Stensen's work in anatomy, see P. Franceschini,
“Priorita del Borelli e dello Stenone nella conoscenza
dell' apparato motore,” in Monitore zoologico italiano
(1948), and in Rivista di storia delle scienze mediche e
naturali (1951), 1 - 15; A. Krogh, “Biologen Niels Stensen.
Trehundrede År.,” in Nordisk tidsskrift for terapi
(1937), 565 - 578; V. Maar, “Om Opdagelsen af Ductus
Vitello-Intestinalis,” in Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes
Selskabs Skrifter (1908), 233 - 265; M. T. May,
“On the Passage of Yolk Into the Intestines of the
Chick,” in Journal of the History of Medicine (1950),
119 - 143; H. P. Philipsen, “Ductus parotideus Stenonianus,”
in Tendlaegetidende, 64 (1960), 221 - 248;
C. Schirren, “Niels Stensen entdeckte vor 300 Jahren die
später nach Fallot benannte Tetralogie,” in Medizinische
Welt (1965), 278 - 280; Th. Schlichting, “Das
Tagebuch von Niels Stensen,” in Centaurus (1954),
305 - 310; C. M. Steenberg, “Niels Stensen som sammenlignende
Anatom og Embryolog,” in Naturens Verden
(1938), 202 - 209; and E. Warburg, “Niels Stensen
Beskrivelse af det f?rste publicerede Tilfaelde af Fallcts
Tetradé,” in Nordisk medicin, 16 (1942),
3550.
On Stensen's geological work, see E. Becksmann,
“N. Steno (1638 - 1686) und seine Stellung in der Geschichte
der Geologie,” in Zeitschrift der Deutschen geologischen
Gesellschaft, 91 (1939), 329 - 336; A. Garboe,
“Niels Stensens (Stenos) geologiske Arbejdes Skaebne,”
in Danmarks geologiske unders?gelse, 4 (1948), 1 - 34;
A. Johnsen, “Die Geschichte der kristall-morphologischen
Erkenntnis,” in Sitzungsberichte der Preussis
chen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (1932), 404;
Hj. Oedum, “Niels Stensens geologiske Syn og videnskabelige
Tankesaet,” in Naturens Verden (1938), 49 -
60; F. Rodolico, “L'evoluzione geologica della Toscana
secondo N. Stenone,” in Memorie della Società
toscana di scienze naturali, 60, ser. A (1953), 3 - 7;
H. Schenk, “Applied Paleontology,” in Bulletin of the
American Association of Petroleum Geologists (1940),
1752; G. Scherz, “Niels Stensens Smaragdreise,” in
Centaurus (1955), 51 - 57; and H. Seifert, “Nicolaus
Steno als Bahnbrecher der modernen Kristallographie,”
in Sudhoffs Archiv für Geschichte der Medizin und der
Naturwissenschaften (1954), 29 - 47.
The more general works on Stensen and his work are
A. Faller, “Die philosophischen Voraussetzungen des
Anatomen und Biologen Niels Stensen,” in Arzt and
Christ (Salzburg, 1962); K. Larsen, “Stenos Forfold til
Filosofi og Religion,” in Kirkehist. Saml. (Copenhagen,
1938), 511 - 553; J. Nordström, “Antonio Magliabechi
och Nicolaus Steno,” in Lychnos, 20 (1962), 1 - 42;
R. Rome, “Nicolas Sténon (1638 - 1686). Anatomiste,
etc.,” in Revue des questions scientifiques (1956), 517 -
572; “Nicolas Sténon et la Royal Society,” in
Osiris, 17
(1956), 244 - 268; and G. Scherz, “Danmarks Stensen-Manuskript,”
in Fund og Forskning (Copenhagen,
1958 - 1959), 19 - 33; and “Niels Stensen's First Dissertation,”
in Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied
Sciences, 15 (1960), 247 - 264.