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Monuments and Iconography on Niels Stensen

Florence, October 19, 1986. John Paul II praying at Stensen's tomb in the Basilica of St. Lawrence.  On his right, Cardinal Silvano Piovanelli.


St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Beatification of Niels Stensen, October 23, 1988. On the top right, his portrait realized for the ceremony.


Cardinal Edward Cassidy, President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, blesses the plaque dedicated to Stensen at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.


Bronze monument of Niels Stensen situated in front of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Health at the University of Copenhagen (Nørre Allé, 49).


Stensen's birthplace plaque in Copenhagen.


Volterra, Palazzo gentilizio in Via Matteotti. Plaque in memory of the work Stensen did in this city, eventually published in The Prodromus to a  Dissertation concerning Solids Naturally Contained within Solids (1671).