|Conrad Gessner paleontology
Collect, describe, and try to understand “stony concretions” out of the ground as Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner in his book De rerum fossilium, lapidum et gemmarum, the first illustrated book on fossils, compared glossopetræ with shark teeth likely without thinking that one derived from the other.
They fell from the sky during moonless nights, Pliny the Elder said. Maybe they grew naturally in the rock. Tongue stones dragon tongues serpent tongues Maltese tongues tongues of Saint Paul were said to detoxify a poisoned drink or counteract a snakebite.
Remnants and traces
If fossils tell us nothing is immutable, they also tell us a trace might remain. Cleaning out my garage, I can hardly remember where some of these things came from. Like the classic fable about the man who was granted eternal life but forgot to ask for eternal youth the past has withered into remnants and traces.
"Kutoka kwa utafiti wa kisayansi, Gessner aliandika ""Glossopteryx"" (kinywa cha papa) katika kitabu chake cha De rerum fossilium lapidus et gemmarum, ambacho kilikuwa kitabu cha kwanza cha kuchora picha kuhusu visukuku." Walitoka angani wakati wa usiku usio na mwezi, Pliny Mzee alisema. Labda zilikua kwa kawaida katika mwamba. Lugha ya St. Paul: Lugha ya Nyoka: Lugha ya Nyoka: Lugha ya St. Paul: Lugha ya St. Paul: Lugha ya St. Paul: Lugha ya St. Paul: Lugha ya St. Paul: Lugha ya St. Paul: Lugha ya St. Paul: Lugha ya St. Paul: Lugha ya St. Paul: Lugha ya St. Paul: Lugha ya St. Paul: Lugha ya St. Paul: Lugha ya St. Paul: Lugha ya St. Paul. """Kama visukuku vinavyotufundisha kwamba hakuna kitu kisichoweza kubadilika, vinaweza pia kutufundisha kwamba kuna uwezekano wa kuwapo kwa alama." Nilipokuwa nikisafisha karakana yangu, sikukumbuka hata mahali ambapo baadhi ya vitu hivyo vilitoka. Kama hadithi ya hadithi ya mtu aliyepokea uzima wa milele lakini akasahau kuomba ujana wa milele, wakati uliopita umekufa na kuwa mabaki na alama.