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Stefano Breventano, Trattato del Terremoto
No full textIl 16 novembre 1570 un terremoto colpisce Ferrara ed il pavese Stefano Breventano decide di scrivere un Trattato del Terremoto.
Un trattato mai pubblicato e conservato manoscritto presso la Biblioteca Ambrosiana di Milano, che viene qui proposto in una edizione critica curata da Paola Albini.
In realtà, il vero trattato è contenuto integralmente nel primo dei sette libri che compongono il manoscritto e per quanto assai pochi dei concetti ivi espressi possano essere oggi condivisi, colpisce la razionalità della sequenza degli argomenti trattati, che potrebbero costituire l’indice dei contenuti di un manuale di sismologia applicata di oggi.
Dal libro secondo il manoscritto diventa una sorta di storia universale, scandita da terremoti, inondazioni, pestilenze, incendi e fenomeni strani.Published3.10. Sismologia storica e archeosismologiaope
A survey of the past earthquakesin the Eastern Adriatic (14th to early 19th century)
No full textFocusing on the Eastern Adriatic region, from Zadar in the north to Corfu in the south, the background information supporting our knowledge of the seismicity in the time-span 14th to early 19th century is discussed from the point of view of the historical earthquake records. The late 19th century seismological compilations turn out to be those responsible for the uneven spatial and temporal distribution of seismicity suggested by current parametric
earthquake catalogues. This awareness asked for a comprehensive reappraisal of the reliability and completeness of the available historical earthquake records. This task was addressed by retrieving in the original version the information already known, by putting the records in the historical context in which they were produced, and finally by sampling historical sources so far not considered. Selected case histories have been presented in some detail also. This material altogether has shown that i) current parameterisation of past earthquakes in the
Eastern Adriatic should be reconsidered in the light of a critically revised interpretation of the available records;
ii) collecting new evidence in sources and repositories, not fully exploited so far, is needed. This should aim mostly at overcoming another limitation affecting the evaluation of full sets of earthquake parameters, that is the few observations available for each earthquake. In this perspective, an optimistic assessment of the potential documentation on this area is proposed.PublishedJCR Journalope
A survey of the past earthquakesin the Eastern Adriatic (14th to early 19th century)
No full textFocusing on the Eastern Adriatic region, from Zadar in the north to Corfu in the south, the background information supporting our knowledge of the seismicity in the time-span 14th to early 19th century is discussed from the point of view of the historical earthquake records. The late 19th century seismological compilations turn out to be those responsible for the uneven spatial and temporal distribution of seismicity suggested by current parametric
earthquake catalogues. This awareness asked for a comprehensive reappraisal of the reliability and completeness of the available historical earthquake records. This task was addressed by retrieving in the original version the information already known, by putting the records in the historical context in which they were produced, and finally by sampling historical sources so far not considered. Selected case histories have been presented in some detail also. This material altogether has shown that i) current parameterisation of past earthquakes in the
Eastern Adriatic should be reconsidered in the light of a critically revised interpretation of the available records;
ii) collecting new evidence in sources and repositories, not fully exploited so far, is needed. This should aim mostly at overcoming another limitation affecting the evaluation of full sets of earthquake parameters, that is the few observations available for each earthquake. In this perspective, an optimistic assessment of the potential documentation on this area is proposed.PublishedJCR Journalope
Stefano Breventano, Trattato del Terremoto
No full textIl 16 novembre 1570 un terremoto colpisce Ferrara ed il pavese Stefano Breventano decide di scrivere un Trattato del Terremoto.
Un trattato mai pubblicato e conservato manoscritto presso la Biblioteca Ambrosiana di Milano, che viene qui proposto in una edizione critica curata da Paola Albini.
In realtà, il vero trattato è contenuto integralmente nel primo dei sette libri che compongono il manoscritto e per quanto assai pochi dei concetti ivi espressi possano essere oggi condivisi, colpisce la razionalità della sequenza degli argomenti trattati, che potrebbero costituire l’indice dei contenuti di un manuale di sismologia applicata di oggi.
Dal libro secondo il manoscritto diventa una sorta di storia universale, scandita da terremoti, inondazioni, pestilenze, incendi e fenomeni strani.Published3.10. Sismologia storica e archeosismologiaope
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
The True Case of the 1276 Fake Earthquake
No full textThe tangled case history of the 1276 mislocated earthquake is presented in this paper as a paradigmatic one, to explain how the background information on an earthquake is retrieved and specifically to show how it came to light that a good-quality historical earthquake record had been twisted, wrongly interpreted, and eventually included in earthquake catalogs with an incorrect date and location.Published111-1143.10. Storia ed archeologia applicate alle Scienze della TerraJCR Journalreserve
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