Watching Vesuvius a history of science and culture in early modern Italy
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 thi...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Chicago & London
The University of Chicago Press
2013
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Volcanism
> Social aspects
> Influence
> Vesuvius (Italy)
> Research
> History
> Eruption, 1631
> Naples (Italy)
> Intellectual life
> Italien
> Vesuv
> Vulkan
> Eruption
> Vulkanologie
> Geschichte 1500-1800
> Wissenschaftskultur
> Geologie
> Wissenschaftsgeschichte
> Neapel
> Wissenschaft
> Forschung
> Kultur
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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. |
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| Beschreibung: | xi, 322 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 0226923711 0-226-92371-1 9780226923710 978-0-226-92371-0 |