Times of Albert the Great

In the XIII century, in times of Albert the Great, this view gained many supporters in the west; fossils looked kind of like a game of nature, partly as they saw the first attempts of creation: before you begin to create living beings, nature makes them dead prototypes . Fallopian considered fossil mammoth teeth and shanks dish prehistoric man, found in Monte Testacho, near Rome, earthy concretions, and Agricola believed that shell, found in the mountains were formed from the viscous substance under the action of heat; in fossilized bones, imprints of leaves and fish it saw the remnants of animals and plants, hardened by means of special stone juice. Other fossils attributed to the formation of the influence of the stars. In the last century many adherents had a theory that assume that the sea breeze blows particular, causes the formation of rocks "figured stones". At least that is the origin attributed to a traveler, and the ruins of the marble statues of the city open to them in kireneyskoy desert of North Africa. It is incredible that such views could for so long. But the prejudice was rooted too deeply, and yet in this century had its adherents, a famous geologist examined the fossils are not born as embryos never organisms ancient periods. It is not difficult to understand how such opinions might arise in an era when there were still traces of the right historical outlook. In the whimsical patterns of agate and marble, with some imagination it is easy to see images of people, animals, plants, species, and anything you want. This, of course, not fossils existed once bodies, the city with the towers, was apparently accidental education, but just like education seemed possible, then it was easy to mix with them and these fossils.