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Watching Vesuvius : a history of science and culture in early modern Italy /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cocco, Sean
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Volcanism > Social aspects > Italy > Naples.
Volcanism > Italy > Naples > Influence.
Vesuvius (Italy) > History > 17th century.
Vesuvius (Italy) > Eruption, 1631.
Vesuvius (Italy) > Research > Italy > History.
Naples (Italy) > Intellectual life > 17th century.
Naples (Italy) > History > 1503-1734.
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Table of 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.