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Table of Contents - Special Paper 411

The Origins of Geology in Italy

edited by Gian Battista Vai and W. Glen E. Caldwell

Preface		vii
1.	Italian gemology during the Renaissance: A step toward modern mineralogy Annibale Mottana	1
2.	Agricola and the birth of the mineralogical sciences in Italy in the sixteenth century Nicoletta Morello	23
3.	Geology and the artists of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, mainly Florentine David Branagan	31
4.	Ulisse Aldrovandi and the origin of geology and science Gian Battista Vai and William Cavazza	43
5.	Kircher and Steno on the “geocosm,” with a reassessment of the role of Gassendi’s works Toshihiro Yamada	65
6.	Steno, the fossils, the rocks, and the calendar of the Earth Nicoletta Morello	81
7.	Isostasy in Luigi Ferdinando Marsili’s manuscripts Gian Battista Vai	95
8.	Luigi Ferdinando Marsili (1658–1730): A pioneer in geomorphological and archaeological surveying Carlotta Franceschelli and Stefano Marabini	129
9.	Mattia Damiani (1705–1776), poet and scientist in eighteenth century Tuscany Giancarlo Scalera	141
10.	The “classification” of mountains in eighteenth century Italy and the lithostratigraphic theory of Giovanni Arduino (1714–1795) Ezio Vaccari	157
11.	The geological work of Gregory Watt, his travels with William Maclure in Italy (1801–1802), and Watt’s “proto-geological” map of Italy (1804) Hugh S. Torrens	179
12.	Giovan Battista Brocchi’s Rome: A pioneering study in urban geology Renato Funiciello and Claudio Caputo	199
13.	Leopoldo Pilla (1805–1848): A young combatant who lived for geology and died for his country Bruno D’Argenio	211