Watching Vesuvius
Subtitle: a history of science and culture in early modern Italy
By: Sean Cocco
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780226923710; 9780226923734
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: History; Volcanism; Intellectual life; Eruption, 1631; Influence; Research
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Vesuvius in the view South; title: Approaches: humanists, naturalists, and Vesuvius in the late Renaissance; title: Marvelous excesses: the eruption of 1631; title: Histories of ignition: from historia to causa; title: Contesting Vesuvius: discordant meanings in the context of revolt; title: On the face of this earth: Vesuvius and its kind; title: Watching and philosophizing: from controversy to cosmopolitanism; title: Formed by explosion: geology in the Neapolitan picturesque; title: Conclusion: returns to the past.