De Corporibus Marinis Lapidescentibus Quae Defossa Reperiuntur - Addita Dissertatione Fabii Columnae De Glossopetris

Klappentext Two foundational seventeenth-century texts on palaeontology, arguing for the animal origin of fossils, in an illustrated 1752 edition from Rome. Zusammenfassung This illustrated 1752 publication brings together two seventeenth-century works that paved the way for the study of palaeontology. Sicilian artist Agostino Scilla (1629–1700) and Neapolitan botanist Fabio Colonna (1567–1640) both argued that fossils were the remains of living organisms rather than extraordinary mineral phenomena with magical properties. Inhaltsverzeichnis De corporibus marinis lapidescentibus; Fabii Columnae Lyncei de glossopetris dissertatio; Index tabularum; Tabulae I-XXVIII.

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• Authors: Fabio Colonna, Colonna Fabio, Agostino Scilla, Agostino Colonna Scilla, Scilla Agostino
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.07.2015
• EAN: 9781108084833
• ISBN: 978-1-108-08483-3
• No. of pages: 134
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Earth Science
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology; SCIENCE / Paleontology, Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere, Geology & The Lithosphere