Watching Vesuvius
A History of Science and Culture in Early Modern Italy
- Hardcover
336 pages
- Release Date
29 November 2012
Summary
Mount Vesuvius has been famous ever since its eruption in 79 CE, when it destroyed and buried the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. But less well-known is the role it played in the science and culture of early modern Italy, as Sean Cocco reveals in this ambitious and wide-ranging study. Humanists began to make pilgrimages to Vesuvius during the early Renaissance to experience its beauty and study its history, but a new tradition of observation emerged in 1631 with the first great er…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780226923710 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0226923711 |
| Author: | Sean Cocco |
| Publisher: | The University of Chicago Press |
| Imprint: | University of Chicago Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 29 November 2012 |
| Weight: | 595g |
| Dimensions: | 3mm x 16mm x 24mm |
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Critics Review
“Watching Vesuvius 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 eighteenth-century philosophizing on volcanoes and the development of geology later in the century. Around this history of science, Sean Cocco weaves a deep cultural history of the relationship between nature and culture in the theories and practices of the peoples in the city of Naples.” (John A. Marino, University of California, San Diego)”
Sean Cocco
Sean Cocco is associate professor of history at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.
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