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The origins of geology in Italy
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- Creator
- edited by Gian Battista Vai and W. Glen E. Caldwell
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 2006
- Physical Details
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- xi, 223 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm
- ISBNs
- 0813724112, 9780813724119
- OCLC
- ocm69792787, ocn213301133
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Italian gemology during the Renaissance: a step toward modern mineralogy / Annibale Mottana -- Agricola and the birth of the mineralogical sciences in Italy in the sixteenth century / Nicoletta Morello -- Geology and the artists of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, mainly Florentine / David Branagan -- Ulisse Aldrovandi and the origin of geology and science / Gian Battista Vai, William Cavazza -- Kircher and Steno on the "geocosm," with a reassessment of the role of Gassendi's works / Toshihiro Yamada -- Steno, the fossils, the rocks, and the calendar of the Earth / Nicoletta Morello -- Isostasy in Luigi Ferdinando Marsili's manuscripts / Gian Battista Vai -- Luigi Ferdinando Marsili (1658-1730): a pioneer in geomorphological and archaeological surveying / Carlotta Franceschelli, Stefano Marabini -- Mattia Damiani (1705-1776), poet and scientist in eighteenth century Tuscany / Giancarlo Scalera -- The "classification" of mountains in eighteenth century Italy and the lithostratigraphic theory of Giovanni Arduino (1714-1795) / Ezio Vaccari -- The geological work of Gregory Watt, his travels with William Maclure in Italy (1801-1802), and Watt's "proto-geological" map of Italy (1804) / Hugh S. Torrens -- Giovan Battista Brocchi's Rome: a pioneering study in urban geology / Renato Funiciello, Claudio Caputo -- Leopoldo Pilla (1805-1848): a young combatant who lived for geology and died for his country / Bruno D'Argenio