Watching Vesuvius

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Watching Vesuvius is written by Sean Cocco and published by University of Chicago Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0226923711 (ISBN 10) and 9780226923710 (ISBN 13).

This work explores the question of Vesuvius as an object of study in the early modern science of volcanism from the investigations and opinions of humanists and naturalists in the late Renaissance to the early 18th-century philosophizing on volcanoes and the development of geology later in the century.