. . . . "A stratum's upper surface was parallel to the horizon when formed, so every stratum except the lowest was bounded by two horizontal planes, and strata now vertical or inclined were once horizontal." . "empirical-generalization" . . "Formalization: several. Exactly horizontal (false: clinoforms, cross-bedding) versus near-horizontal for most sediment (true)." . "Strata were deposited horizontally; inclined strata were once horizontal" . "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; original attitude of bedding." . "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 612 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." . . . "Hence it follows that strata either perpendicular to the horizon or inclined toward it, were at one time parallel to the horizon." . . "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: Strata were deposited horizontally; inclined strata were once horizontal" . . "RSA" . "MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEAyFHtPB6p0mCjDozxlOY9CmO3nBm7Te3jFbXyLmM+G1tGe47Da0jYIbhkl9Oo1ZjxmCa3LCwlEqK8gj6hEIcL4ahW30JXh9HycfKVk1bugkzMEV15tJdTzAU3sGMFnbNsn43xY2LFLy45tApkRm5byEiM7oRRrooIdwoQKnP4Wzq/bfAoJ9qvW+MGkelyOTd1jbSt+KfmT7xKmDfWzAHddUlWwMX2QJOLxDaffOteTop6ZRgPiNmPJKA/S62Gac9XtSYT3oDkZ6/nr5cxxNLpOyxTf5FPISiCe11xYO/unYjY+mwnOfA8yhJIyx1l0O9I0vpOpn+E5TvyHJV+oSTrvwIDAQAB" . "G0fJdynQswOx2+yMoXIFpNYhoqwecJsVmfbA4LpxBSLpvdGBaGcno/DgQr1PsYNfy5llyLOwmPQqHAi5Xs99AT/CcwB18XOEOF0rzsBX1yOUd/tfeOvyXKCMqdcqrdkbjhqTvv79iZPBRolDzuuXmyiH+XakB1X2fUpzHG1mtQcY1aMW6MxlzX8IOWCP9noCJsDMcE8QH4q2Nx00C3mquBBlfti5SfZFEKt2J2YH7IPyJwD33hPmW0B0Au+CtoIkRYx40OE0KpDjzkLYZx1DHZVzb/gQgRkQ0kg1STgordJOmr+fWyhVKoseeTkKP6dJe/RMXtslOqXcoeWbVEg14Q==" . . .