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Watching Vesuvius : a history of science and culture in early modern Italy / Sean Cocco.
LIBRA QE523.V5 C63 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cocco, Sean.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science.
- History.
- Volcanism.
- Volcanism--Social aspects.
- Vesuvius (Italy)--History--17th century.
- Vesuvius (Italy).
- Vesuvius (Italy)--Eruption, 1631.
- Vesuvius (Italy)--Research--Italy--History.
- Volcanism--Social aspects--Italy--Naples.
- Volcanism--Italy--Naples--Influence.
- Science--Italy--Naples--History--17th century.
- Naples (Italy)--Intellectual life--17th century.
- Naples (Italy).
- Naples (Italy)--History--1503-1734.
- Italy--Naples.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013 [that is, 2012], ©2013.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Vesuvius in the view south
- Approaches : humanists, naturalists, and Vesuvius in the late Renaissance
- Marvelous excesses : the eruption of 1631
- Histories of ignition : from historia to causa
- Contesting Vesuvius : discordant meanings in the context of revolt
- On the face of this earth : Vesuvius and its kind
- Watching and philosophizing : from controversy to cosmopolitanism
- Formed by explosion : geology in the Neapolitan picturesque
- Conclusion: returns to the past.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-305) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226923710
- 0226923711
- OCLC:
- 783150352
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