. . . . "When a stratum formed it was either enclosed at its sides by another solid or covered the whole surface of the earth, so wherever a stratum's bare side is seen, its continuation or a confining body must be sought." . "empirical-generalization" . . "A stratum either continues laterally or was bounded by another solid" . "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, position of strata, p. 230. Scope: Sedimentary strata; lateral continuity." . "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 230 of the reading copy; paragraph 610 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." . . . "in whatever place the bared sides of the strata are seen, either a continuation of the same strata must be sought, or another solid substance must be found which keptthe matter of the strata from dispersion" . . "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: A stratum either continues laterally or was bounded by another solid" . . "RSA" . "MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEAyFHtPB6p0mCjDozxlOY9CmO3nBm7Te3jFbXyLmM+G1tGe47Da0jYIbhkl9Oo1ZjxmCa3LCwlEqK8gj6hEIcL4ahW30JXh9HycfKVk1bugkzMEV15tJdTzAU3sGMFnbNsn43xY2LFLy45tApkRm5byEiM7oRRrooIdwoQKnP4Wzq/bfAoJ9qvW+MGkelyOTd1jbSt+KfmT7xKmDfWzAHddUlWwMX2QJOLxDaffOteTop6ZRgPiNmPJKA/S62Gac9XtSYT3oDkZ6/nr5cxxNLpOyxTf5FPISiCe11xYO/unYjY+mwnOfA8yhJIyx1l0O9I0vpOpn+E5TvyHJV+oSTrvwIDAQAB" . "vFjXVYxUB687OiSWedEdUG0akiqY3ktgSRo/DtThYBwAIK3fAg9J2Umz06RWByXzzH74riCyIZ5uJVhW1twTtTM2nTcnAcLvFAQOlrNo/zGI9b3YFJZplWIbIcEeEBatSKZ7hAzoX8OraJc8aB8PBegDgDoQueFtVCsFhzYkoHhVeEAZ06hHEO+IO5Bkapa4gwTfjhvxgM2wt8XW/gYifGxBfofkZUS/nZXzapOiPrnRPBORtJTMfzUIdBi2hGo7GZ5OGJYevCyg99XHHI+hVmB9L36OyEUbtGoMc+yJkfDlZ1K5RlEscyn0+hLqW6RybigPYjR7MWo4vHQJ06FE6g==" . . .