FOSSIL ECHINOIDS USED AS GRAVE GOODS. WHAT WAS THE MAGIC ALLURE OF THE FIVE-POINTED STAR?

摘要

You can't tell me that it isn't mostly about the gear; and for Earth scientists that traditionally meant the trusty hammer - our badge of office. Crossed hammers have long been our universal guild sign. IUGS indeed used to boast a hideous logo featuring our beloved planet apparently impaled on a hammer; while the tag Mente et malleo - 'by thought and hammer' - became enshrined in society and survey mottoes worldwide. Well, if you want to use a hammer these days you'd better watch out.