. . . . "The crystals of mountains agree, in the manner and place of their production, with crystals of niter formed from solution, although the fluid need not have been water." . "empirical-generalization" . . "Mountain crystals form the way niter crystals form from solution" . "Steno N, “De solido intra solidum naturaliter contento dissertationis prodromus”, Macmillan, New York (Univ. of Michigan Studies, Humanistic Series XI), English translation by John Garrett Winter, 1916 (1669); Prodromus, the place of production of crystals, p. 225. Scope: Vein and cavity quartz; the origin from a fluid." . "Steno N. De solido intra solidum naturaliter contento dissertationis prodromus. Macmillan, New York (Univ. of Michigan Studies, Humanistic Series XI), English translation by John Garrett Winter, 1916 (1669), 205-283" . "Nicolaus Steno" . "1669"^^ . "Winter's 1916 translation with Hobbs's foreword; the Latin original is in archive.org nicolaistenonisd00sten. The translation's year is 1916; the graph dates the claims to 1669." . "Public domain (1669; translation 1916)." . "De solido intra solidum naturaliter contento dissertationis prodromus" . . . . "Reading copy of De solido intra solidum naturaliter contento dissertationis prodromus" . . . "delphisci crystals-and-form claim extractor" . . . . "Claude Fable 5.1" . . . . . . . . . . . . "Page 225 of the reading copy; paragraph 505 of the normalised text 1669-steno.txt (sha256 ffd1648fdb362aea9dc6fd282f07770a1f6b4b1f2b4b87635f8d88f0a8d58dbb), produced by build/fetch.py and checked by build/check-quotes.mjs. The text itself is not committed." . . . "That the crystals of mountains, as regards the manner and place of production, agree with the crystals of niter,^ although it is not therefore essential that the fluid in which they were produced should have been aqueous." . . "ffd1648fdb362aea9dc6fd282f07770a1f6b4b1f2b4b87635f8d88f0a8d58dbb" . "Checksum of the normalised one-paragraph-per-line text derived from the reading copy, not of the reading copy itself." . "crystals-and-form" . "2026-11-07T03:18:23.997Z"^^ . . . . . "Nicolaus Steno 1669 claim: Mountain crystals form the way niter crystals form from solution" . . "RSA" . "MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEAyFHtPB6p0mCjDozxlOY9CmO3nBm7Te3jFbXyLmM+G1tGe47Da0jYIbhkl9Oo1ZjxmCa3LCwlEqK8gj6hEIcL4ahW30JXh9HycfKVk1bugkzMEV15tJdTzAU3sGMFnbNsn43xY2LFLy45tApkRm5byEiM7oRRrooIdwoQKnP4Wzq/bfAoJ9qvW+MGkelyOTd1jbSt+KfmT7xKmDfWzAHddUlWwMX2QJOLxDaffOteTop6ZRgPiNmPJKA/S62Gac9XtSYT3oDkZ6/nr5cxxNLpOyxTf5FPISiCe11xYO/unYjY+mwnOfA8yhJIyx1l0O9I0vpOpn+E5TvyHJV+oSTrvwIDAQAB" . "gV0x3jGd+RcBwWi2xpjzxssHAEOQoP0BZtKtfXJ9smE98/pGNu7fqXhIcxbLJ8zhm+NyII46+nOdWQceh8MsVIVPkBn9Bv51rXl4EGGmfVFtrrgAHKrwyha9KD681P/2uFyVGsTrkrm/7cpHNVkxpJqqgYNdxEdfQ9tFLpuRpDT3Kt+BjaoWDHxerS/DNpGf2jmppHUch8YHFCO86OF0FKm7zybD3w72DiRw5AREqIB1OxdMHrVD0y64yzB68M0AOV6gYheWJml0CWcxuuJOv7s/vsjJ4U/lQqM9NJDlbvlttO1jHo25PrSuB08Vq7Raz2LIDnap3wVLqyzLkuhhSA==" . . .