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STORIA DELLA TERRA E TEMPI GEOLOGICI IN UNO SCRITTO INEDITO DI GIOVANNI ARDUINO: LA «RISPOSTA ALLEGORICO-ROMANZESCA» A FERBER

STORIA DELLA TERRA E TEMPI GEOLOGICI IN UNO SCRITTO INEDITO DI GIOVANNI ARDUINO: LA «RISPOSTA... <jats:sec><jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>&lt;title&gt; SUMMARY &lt;/title&gt;The publication of Giovanni Arduino's Risposta allegorico-romanzesc&lt;?CTRLerr type="1" mess="Doute sur la typo" ?&gt;a to J. J. Ferber highlights an unpublished and crucial aspect of Arduino's geology. The concept of epoch, applied to the history of the changes undergone by the Earth's crust, is put forward well before Buffon's Epoques de la Nature. Moreover the reflections of Arduino open up a «third possibility» between the catastrophist and uniformitarian hypotheses. This goes beyond the rigid antithesis between «Neptunism» and «Plutonism», which constituded the conditioning element of the study of Earth Science in Europe around the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century.</jats:p> </jats:sec> http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nuncius (successor of "Annali") Brill

STORIA DELLA TERRA E TEMPI GEOLOGICI IN UNO SCRITTO INEDITO DI GIOVANNI ARDUINO: LA «RISPOSTA ALLEGORICO-ROMANZESCA» A FERBER

Nuncius (successor of "Annali") , Volume 6 (2): 171 – Jan 1, 1991

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 1991 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0394-7394
eISSN
1825-3911
DOI
10.1163/182539191X00821
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Abstract

<jats:sec><jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>&lt;title&gt; SUMMARY &lt;/title&gt;The publication of Giovanni Arduino's Risposta allegorico-romanzesc&lt;?CTRLerr type="1" mess="Doute sur la typo" ?&gt;a to J. J. Ferber highlights an unpublished and crucial aspect of Arduino's geology. The concept of epoch, applied to the history of the changes undergone by the Earth's crust, is put forward well before Buffon's Epoques de la Nature. Moreover the reflections of Arduino open up a «third possibility» between the catastrophist and uniformitarian hypotheses. This goes beyond the rigid antithesis between «Neptunism» and «Plutonism», which constituded the conditioning element of the study of Earth Science in Europe around the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century.</jats:p> </jats:sec>

Journal

Nuncius (successor of "Annali")Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1991

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