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Vesuvio - Sismologia - Serao, Francesco
History of the fire of Vesuvius which occurred in the month of May of the year MDCCXXXVII, 1738
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Naples, Stamperia di Novello de Bonis, 1738. In 4°. Frieze on the title page, with two folded plates with views of Vesuvius "Vesuvii prospectus ex aedibus regiis" and "Vesuvius a vertice dissectus", light browning, slight foxing, contemporary hard parchment binding, gilt title on the spine, marbled red edges, minor defects.
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Francesco Serao (1702-1783), a physician and professor in Naples, was a leading figure in eighteenth-century medicine and one of the first modern scholars of Vesuvius. In 1738, he wrote the History of the Fire of Vesuvius, the result of careful field observations, with descriptions of lava, ash, and volcanic materials. The work was widely distributed and translated into French and English, contributing to the birth of volcanology as a scientific discipline.
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