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Creator
Date
2013
Location
Illinois
Media format
Printed text
Extent
xi, 322 pages
Language
English
Size
24 cm
Reference IDs
Folger bibliographic ID: 270755
Folger call number: QE523.V5 C63 2013
Folger holdings ID: 356870
Folger call number: QE523.V5 C63 2013
Folger holdings ID: 356870
Notes
General notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-305) and index
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
Also known as
Extended title: Watching Vesuvius : a history of science and culture in early modern Italy / Sean Cocco
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Related names
author: Cocco, Sean