The Origins of Geology in Italy, Issue 411Gian Battista Vai, W. G. E. Caldwell |
Contents
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Isostasy in Luigi Ferdinando Marsilis manuscripts | 7 |
A young combatant | 13 |
Agricola and the birth of the mineralogical sciences in Italy in the sixteenth century | 23 |
Geology and the artists of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries mainly Florentine | 31 |
Ulisse Aldrovandi and the origin of geology and science | 43 |
Kircher and Steno on the geocosm with a reassessment of the role | 65 |
Steno the fossils the rocks and the calendar of the Earth | 81 |
Isostasy in Luigi Ferdinando Marsilis manuscripts | 95 |
A pioneer in geomorphological | 129 |
Mattia Damiani 17051776 poet and scientist in eighteenth century Tuscany | 141 |
The classification of mountains in eighteenth century Italy and the lithostratigraphic | 157 |
The geological work of Gregory Watt his travels with William Maclure in Italy 18011802 | 179 |
A pioneering study in urban geology | 199 |
A young combatant who lived for geology | 211 |
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1603 in Bologna Agricola America Special Paper ancient apud Arduino Athanasius Kircher basalt Battista Biblioteca Universitaria Brocchi Cavazza classification crust Deluge Descartes Earth edition eighteenth century Figure Firenze Florence Fondo formation formed fossils Gassendi gems gemstones geological maps Geological Society Giovanni Giovanni Arduino glossopetra history of Earth hygrometers isostasy Italian Italy James Watt Leonardo letter libri lithostratigraphic London Luigi Ferdinando Marsili Maclure manuscript Marabini Mare marine Marsili metallica Metallotheca mineral mineralogy Minerva Edizioni modern monti Morello Mundus Museum Naples natural history naturalistic Nicolaus Steno Nolli observations original painting Paris pietre Pilla Prodromus published Renaissance rocks Roma Rome scientific sixteenth century Society of America Special Paper 411 Steno Stenonian stones Storia strata surface Targioni Tozzetti terra terrestrial theory tion translation treatise Ulisse Aldrovandi Ulisse Aldrovandi 1603 Universitaria di Bologna University Vaccari Vallisneri Venice volcanic Volterra Watt's William Maclure word geology
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