num_pages: 228
description: Documents the work of a seventeenth-century scientist and priest who was the first to conduct geological studies of the earth's layers revealing in the process the planet's significant age as compared to biblical beliefs. 22500 first printing.
language: English
title: The Seashell on the Mountaintop: A Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius who Discovered a New History of the Earth
publisher: Dutton Adult