“It would indeed be a great delusion, if we stated that those sports of Nature [we find] enclosed in rocks are there by chance or by some vague creative power. Ah, that would be superficial indeed! In reality, those shells, which once were alive in water and are now dead and decomposed, were made thus by time not Nature; and what we now find as very hard, figured stone, was once soft mud and which received the impression of the shape of a shell, as I have frequently demonstrated.”
Quote by Agostino Scilla
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Agostino Scilla
Agostino Scilla, born on August 10, 1629, and died on May 31, 1700, was a historical figure of an unknown profession or category. more