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Marco Armiero is Senior Researcher at the Italian National Research Council and Marie Curie Fellow at the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technologies,
Possessing Nature
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Authors: Paula Findlen
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-09-16 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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In 1500 few Europeans regarded nature as a subject worthy of inquiry. Yet fifty years later the first museums of natural history had appeared in Italy, dedicate
Watching Vesuvius
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Authors: Sean Cocco
Categories: History
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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
The Architecture of Modern Italy
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“Modern Italy”may sound like an oxymoron. For Western civilization,Italian culture represents the classical past and the continuity of canonical tradition,w
Fault Lines
Language: en
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Authors: Giacomo Parrinello
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Earth’s fractured geology is visible in its fault lines. It is along these lines that earthquakes occur, sometimes with disastrous effects. These disturbances