Italy, Artist August 10, 1629 – May, 31, 1700.
Agostino Scilla was an Italian painter, paleontologist, geologist, and pioneer in the study of fossils.
Also known as Painter, Paleoanthropologist, Geologist
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.
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