Watching Vesuvius
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Watching Vesuvius
Author | : Sean Cocco |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226923711 |
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This work explores the question of Vesuvius as an object of study in the early modern science of volcanism from the investigations and opinions of humanists and naturalists in the late Renaissance to the early 18th-century philosophizing on volcanoes and the development of geology later in the century.
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