... at the Spanish National Museum of Roman Art comprise a representative record of archaeological pieces from different decorative programmes dated from the end of the 1 st century BC to the end of the 2 nd century AD. A multi-method approach combining polarized-light microscopy, cathodoluminescence, X-ray powder...

... in terms of recent high seas and storm-beach deposits—rather than as Quaternary shorelines displaced by tectonic uplift. Thus “near the Spanish lines … where [the Roman city of] Carteia once stood, … the sands thrown up by the sea in high winds, almost immediately petrify: as a proof, the lumps...

... the Portuguese Voyages of Discovery, later joined by the Spanish, as a major episode in the history of what would now be called geology. This revolutionary advance was driven by technological changes, yielded a cornucopia of discoveries, was marked by great excitement, and led to major changes in worldview...

... to Roman times, which were attributed to the giant Orontes. Another example is the name “ Panaima ”, literally meaning “ Bloody Battlefield ” on the Island of Samos in the eastern Aegean, derived from the large bones found in the deposits and interpreted as the remains of the legendary battle between...

... Cave” 29 ) as well as from the surrounds (e.g., “Selection of birds from the neighbourhood of Seville”; 30 “A collection of Spanish Roman colonial coins”; 31 “A collection of Carteian antiquities” 32 ) and from much further afield (e.g., “Volcanic productions from the Island of Ascension...

...Richard J. Howarth ABSTRACT The origin and usage through time of geologia , geognosy , geogony , oryctognosy , geology and geophysics , as characterised by their frequency of occurrence in the Google Books Ngram Corpus, is discussed. The English, French, German, Italian and Spanish corpuses used...

... at the Museo Nacional and the Escuela Nacional de Ingenieros [National Museum and National School of Engineers]. He also directed the most important scientific libraries in Mexico at the time, located at the Antonio Alzate (1884–1940) Scientific Society and the Geology Institute of Mexico, which...

... of art to facilitate their public success and recognition. Agassiz connected his private life with his public figure in order to create the myth of a scientist “who would, for the sake of scientific discovery, heroically take on more than he should” (p. 20). Agassiz even realized that his troubles were...

... Sciences Society 2023 History of Earth Sciences Society The Art and Science of the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs . Mark P. Witton and Ellinor Michel. 2022. Ramsbury, Wiltshire, UK: The Crowood Press. 192 pp. $65. In the summer of 2001, my wife and I took a vacation to England. It was my first...

... research projects supported by national and international organisations. He was vice-president of the Palaeontological Association of Argentina and directed the palaeontological magazine Ameghiniana . Victor P. Tollerton, Jr. is Research Associate in Paleontology at the New York State Museum...

... for publication by the Gibraltar Museum that never appeared in print. In addition to those mentioned in the previous article, thanks are due to Dr. Linda Washington (National Army Museum) and Major W. H. White (Regimental Museum, the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry) for help in correspondence during 1991...

... dating back to the first century A.D. ( CIL Vol. 9, number 3430), on Peltuinum, which attests to the reconstruction of the Bath ( balineum ). Today, this inscription is housed in the National Museum of L’Aquila and reproduced in Buonocore (2007) . In archaeological literature ( Sommella, 1989...

.... In Japan, the production of tuff as dimension stone is currently about 4 × 10 5 tons per year (N. Kuchitsu, National Research Institute of Cultural Properties, Tokyo, Japan, pers. comm., 1996). Considering that zeolitic tuff is used as dimension stone in many other countries as well, e.g. Bulgaria, Cuba...

..., West Virginia University, PO Box 6303, Morgantown, WV 26506; [email protected] GLOBES AT GREENWICH: A CATALOGUE OF THE GLOBES AND ARMILLARY SPHERES AT THE NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM, GREENWICH. Elly Dekker, Silke Ackermann, Jonathan Betts, Maria Blyzinsky, Gloria Clifton, Ann Leane...

... values based on that figure divided by 10. No other reliable data are available. For academic and practical geology in North Carolina and the rest of the nation, Silliman’s American Journal of Science and Arts became a main source for mining knowledge and techniques. The scientific reports...

... and Naturalist; Writer and Folklorist, the Cromarty Arts Trust/The National Trust for Scotland/National Museums of Scotland. BOROVAYA, G., 2002, Ignat Domeyko—A National Hero of Chile: Nasha Svoboda , 11 February (in Belarussian). BRANAGAN, DAVID, 2002, Australian Stratigraphy and Paleontology...

... au Muséum par M. de Boury : Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle , v. 24 , p. 6 – 15 . Brocchi , P. , 1883 , Notes sur les Crustacés fossiles des terres tertiares de la Hongrie : Annales des Sciences Géologiques , v. 14 , p...

... Symposium, Dublin, p. 21. FISHER, C.T., eds., 2002, A passion for natural history: the life and legacy of the 13 th Earl of Derby. National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside, Liverpool, 240 p. FOWLER, C.M.R., EBINGER, C., and HAWKESWORTH, C.J., eds., 2002, The early Earth: physical, chemical...

..., fraternity and, equality, which probably were less welcome than the specimens in the political circles of the day at Harvard ( 68 ). In Boston, the Columbian Museum, active between 1795 and 1803, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, founded in 1780, had miscellaneous collections including...

... in Ireland, concluding from them that the great American deer, called a moose, was formerly common in that island : Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond ., v. 19 , p. 489 - 512 . MURPHY , A.R. , 1978 , Visions of Vesuvius : Museum of Fine Arts , Boston . NICOLS , T. , 1652 , A lapidary...