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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Language: en
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Pages: 64
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By "reading" the bones of people killed in the town of Herculaneum by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, an anthropologist reconstructs their lives.
