... ( Fortis, 1778 , Tavola II) (modified from Romano, 2017b ). Corresponding author e-mail: [email protected] 11 08 2023 14 02 2024 01 03 2024 Fig. 1 - Portrait of Alberto Fortis made live by Sofia Sellier (Public Domain/CC0). Throughout his lifetime, Fortis...

... completing his novitiate and graduating in Theology, in 1773 he became a lecturer of Philosophy and Moral Theology at the Scolopian school in Albano (Rome). In 1777 he moved to Ragusa, where he met the Paduan naturalist Alberto Fortis (1741–1803), who had gained a good reputation for his Viaggio in Dalmazia...

... 1996 ) and Alberto Fortis ( Fortis 1772 ), the Swede Johann Jacob Ferber (1743–1790) in 1771 during his trip to Italy ( Ferber 1773, 1776a, 1776b ), and the Frenchman Déodat de Dolomieu (1750–1801) in 1781 during his travel to the volcanoes of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies ( Dolomieu 1794 ). We...

... GEOLOGIA IN ALBERTO FORTIS (1741-1803). Luca Ciancio. 1995 . Biblioteca di Nuncius: Studi e Testi XVIII. Leo S. Olschki, Firenze, Italy. 385 p. Softcover, 82,000 Lira. The figure of Abbot Alberto Fortis has been known for a long time by the historians of the Italian Enlightenment and late...

...Randolph Langenbach, M.EERI; Alberto Dusi This paper reviews the recovery process in San Giuliano di Puglia, the one town in the Molise earthquake to suffer both extensive fatalities and widespread severe damage to its building stock. It focuses on three issues related to the recovery process: (1...

... gradation into arkosic siltstones or fine sandstones. They are notably brittle but the tendency toward shaly splitting is not well developed. An argillaceous odor is marked. These claystones occur as units from a few inches to thirty or forty feet in thickness. Some of them contain fragmentary plant...

... famous Lettera seconda ad Antonio Vallisneri , dated 1759 and published in 1760. The letters are chronologically arranged. Half of them are addressed to Antonio Vallisneri Jr, the others to nineteen different scientists, among whom the most prominent are Alberto Fortis, Giovanni Targioni Tozzetti...

... for the earthquakes analyzed in this study. The authors thank Msgr. Alberto Pala, parish priest of the Cagliari Cathedral; Dottor Roberto Porrà, archivist of the Convento of Our Lady of Bonaria (Cagliari); Dottoressa Atzeni, librarian at the same; and the staff of the Biblioteca Universitaria and the Archivio...

... (2010) 174 Calabria, Italy Etiope and Klusman (2002) 114 Rice paddy; vegetative phase Alberto et al. (2014) 87 Rice paddy; reproductive phase Alberto et al. (2014) 83 Rice paddy; ripening phase Alberto et al. (2014) 30.2 Temperate wetland, Denmark Herbst et al. (2011...

... in Ohio. When he began, he made buggy-wheel traverses, counting the revolutions of a white rag tied to the wheel. Forty years later, when he retired, he had worked on trimetrogon compilation and photogrammetry. In between, he was mostly a field topographer, and apparently a very fast mapper judging from...

...Alberto Michelini; Licia Faenza; Valentino Lauciani; Luca Malagnini With regard to the seismological information required for the “proper interpolation” of the data where no observations are available, the procedure adopted by INGV follows the ShakeMap standard in relying on previously...

..., 2003 ; see also Hou et al., 2002 ; Hou et al., 2004 , p. 192–193; Zhang and Hou, 2004 ). Two of the taxa ( Haikouichthys and Zhangjianichthys ) are represented by numerous specimens, but it is noteworthy that amongst the forty-odd Burgess Shale-type occurrences apart from the Chengjiang...

... by Singer, Maxine, Washington, D.C., American Geophysical Union, 252 p. Ciancio, Luca, 1995, Alberto Fortis e la pratica del viaggio naturalistico: Stile di ricerca e modalità di prova: Nuncius , v. 10, p. 617–644. Ciancio, Luca, 1995, Autopsie della terra: Illuminismo e geologia in Alberto Fortis...

... dioritic hills standing some forty-five metres above the adjacent plains. The diorite is differentially weathered, with kernels or corestones of fresh rock set in a matrix of weathered ‘earthy’ material. The summit bevels were construed as remnants of a ferruginised planation surface, beneath which...

... of 1780 (see R omano , 2017 ). Similar hypotheses are found in the work of the Abbot Alberto Fortis published in Vicenza in 1796. Except for the wrong interpretation of the fossil remains from the mountains of Romagnano in the Verona area, believed by the author as buried in the ground by ancient...

...Emanuela Guidoboni; Alberto Comastri; Dante Mariotti; Cecilia Ciuccarelli; Maria Giovanna Bianchi Abstract This historical seismology study examines and supplements what is currently known from written sources and archaeological literature about the earthquakes that took place in the area...

...Elena Pecchioni; Silvia Vettori; Emma Cantisani; Fabio Fratini; Marilena Ricci; Carlo Alberto Garzonio Abstract The aim of this paper is to identify the mechanisms responsible for the chromatic alteration of Pietra Serena sandstone, the stone used in Florentine Renaissance architecture. This stone...

... of the lunar basalts. For almost forty years he devoted himself to his research and teaching, he held several executive positions: director of the department of Chimica e Fisica della Terra ed Applicazioni of the University of Palermo, from 1999 to 2007; director of the Istituto di Geochimica dei Fluidi...

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