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ELECTRIC SOLDANI. FASHIONABLE EARTHQUAKE THEORIES IN LATE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY TUSCANY
Author(s) -
Viviana Castelli
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of the siena academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2279-882X
pISSN - 2279-8811
DOI - 10.4081/458
Subject(s) - induced seismicity , seismology , history , geology
In the second half of the eighteenth century, earthquakes had become a very controversial subject. An on-going debate about what exactly it was that caused earthquakes to happen had split the international scientific community into the two warring factions of the Firists and the Electricists. This is the story of a Sienese Electricist and his unwitting contribution to the building up of the Italian earthquake catalogue

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