Steno
Nicolaus Steno proposed the most basic principle of relative dating, the law of superposition. Nicolas Steno was a scientist, as well as a Catholic bishop.
De Revolutionibus, Principia Mathematica
That they were rock fragments of different rocks.
Nicolaus Steno observed and concluded about sediment in 1669 that the strata of the earth is accumulated particles that are deposited in time sequence in form of sedimentary layers.
Nicholas Steno was a 17th century Catholic convert but he is not a canonized saint.
No. Especially as Nicholas Steno died 40 years before James Hutton was born.
Blessed Nicolas Steno feast day is 5 December.
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the person who invented these is Nicholas Steno.
He was a Danish Catholic bishop and scientist born January 11, 1638 and died December 5, 1686.
The law of superposition was first proposed by the Persian geologist Avicenna, or Ibn Sina, in the 11th century. However the Danish scientist Nicolas Steno produced a clearer understanding of the principle in the 17th century. A link is provided below.
Nicolas Steno is a Danish geologist and anatomist. He was the first to relive that the earths crust contains fossils and rock strata. In 1669 he made the discovery of quartz crystals from calligraphic.
The cast of Steno og Stilling - 2010 includes: Torben Steno as Steno