The origins of geology in Italy
By: edited by Gian Battista Vai and W. Glen E. Caldwell.
Contributors: Vai, Gian Battista.; Caldwell, W. G. E., 1932-
Series: Special paper -- 411; Special papers (Geological Society of America) -- 411.
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780813724119
Subjects: Geology -- Italy -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Italian gemology during the Renaissance: a step toward modern mineralogy / Annibale Mottana; title: Agricola and the birth of the mineralogical sciences in Italy in the sixteenth century / Nicoletta Morello; title: Geology and the artists of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, mainly Florentine / David Branagan; title: Ulisse Aldrovandi and the origin of geology and science / Gian Battista Vai, William Cavazza; title: Kircher and Steno on the "geocosm," with a reassessment of the role of Gassendi's works / Toshihiro Yamada; title: Steno, the fossils, the rocks, and the calendar of the Earth / Nicoletta Morello; title: Isostasy in Luigi Ferdinando Marsili's manuscripts / Gian Battista Vai; title: Luigi Ferdinando Marsili (1658-1730): a pioneer in geomorphological and archaeological surveying / Carlotta Franceschelli, Stefano Marabini; title: Mattia Damiani (1705-1776), poet and scientist in eighteenth century Tuscany / Giancarlo Scalera; title: The "classification" of mountains in eighteenth century Italy and the lithostratigraphic theory of Giovanni Arduino (1714-1795) / Ezio Vaccari; title: 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; title: Giovan Battista Brocchi's Rome: a pioneering study in urban geology / Renato Funiciello, Claudio Caputo; title: Leopoldo Pilla (1805-1848): a young combatant who lived for geology and died for his country / Bruno D'Argenio.