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Francesco Imperato – de fossilibus opusculum (Quaderni dell'Accademia Pontananiana)
No full textFrancesco Imperato lived between the second half of XVI century and the first half of XVII century. He was
a jurist, a politician and a scholar of natural sciences. In 1610 he issued a book entitled De fossilibus opusculum.
In the work he shows a direct and deep knowledge of the subject that he acquired through the study
of the researches of his father Ferrante, chemist of great fame. By observing and studying some objects of
the family museum, Francesco elaborates some interesting theories and formulates some hypothesis about
the origin and the nature of fossils.
In the book here introduced, the study of this not well known Imperato’s work is deepened to provide to
the community of scholars not only a new piece of history of paleonthology but more largely of history of
scientific culture and thought in the first modern age.
The introduction of Enrica Stendardo at the beginning of the book, entitled Francesco Imperato giureconsulto
e naturalista napoletano, outlines the personality of the author comparing and crossing sources of
different origin.
De fossilibus opusculum is written in XVII century Latin and the original text is here added. Mariantonietta
Paladini translated it in Italian (pp.121-198). The examination of the old references is in the section Nota alla traduzione
del testo latino by Mrs Paladini and in Imperato e le fonti greche by Carmela Pisaniello.
In Aspetti scientifici del De Fossilibus, Filippo Barattolo and Caterina Porcaro worked to interpret and give
back to historians of paleontology the thought of Francesco Imperato, on the edge of new and old knowledge
as a supporter of an obsolete inorganic hypothesis but intuitively modern in the elaboration of the concept of
extinction, at least as an element of discussion.
Such an interesting work deserved to be presented to the International community of scholars. Therefore
Francesca Coletta translated it in English adopting the method of an “updated” translation aiming at communicating
the original content in modern language key
Petrascula iberica (Dragastan et Trappe), Tersella genotii Barattolo et Bigozzi, and the relationships of club-shaped dasycladalean algae during Late Triassic-Early Jurassic times
No full textNew observations on abundant material from the type locality of Petrascula iberica (Dragastan et Trappe), Granier et al. 2003, reveal the presence of a reproductive structure (ampulla) located on the inner-middle part of each primary lateral. This fact suggests a new interpretation of the alga and the establishment of a new genus: Granieria Barattolo et Romano, n. gen. Also, the taxonomic status of the other club-shaped specimens from both the High and Middle Atlas and the Central Apennines of Italy is reviewed
Petrascula iberica (DRAGASTAN & TRAPPE), Tersella genotii BARATTOLO & BIGOZZI, and the relationships of club-shaped dasycladalean algae during Late Triassic-Early Jurassic times
Full text linkNew observations on abundant material from the type locality of Petrascula iberica (DRAGASTAN & TRAPPE) GRANIER et al. reveal the presence of a reproductive structure (ampulla) located on the inner-middle part of each primary lateral. This fact suggests a new interpretation of the alga and the establishment of a new genus: Granieria BARATTOLO & ROMANO, n. gen. Also, the taxonomic status of the other club-shaped specimens from both the High and Middle Atlas of Morocco and the Central Apennines of Italy is reviewed
Petrascula iberica (Dragastan et Trappe), Tersella genotii Barattolo et Bigozzi, and the relationships of club-shaped dasycladalean algae during Late Triassic-Early Jurassic time
No full textNorman Douglas e la geologia nella Terra delle Sirene / Norman Douglas and the Geology in the Siren Land
No full textThe geological aspects on the geology of Capri and Sorrento Peninsula occurring in the Douglas' novel Siren Land are showed and critically discussed
Comunità bentoniche ad alghe dasicladali, foraminiferi ed ostracodi in facies di shelf e di transizione nell'intervallo Trias superiore-Giurassico nell'area tetidea.
No full textRe-description of Cymopolia miocenica (Karrer) (Chlorophyta, Dasycladales) from the Late Miocene of Sicily and the Middle Miocene of Banat (Romania)
No full textProfessor Giuliano Ruggieri found a rich dasyclad flora in siliciclastic sediments of a Late Miocene (lower Messinian) succession from Sicily (Petralia Sottana, Palermo). The algal remains belong to the genus Cymopolia Lamouroux (Cretaceous-Recent). Morphological and biometrical characters allow the Sicilian taxon to be attributed to Cymopolia miocenica, a species formerly described by Karrer in 1868 as Dactylopora miocenica, and known only in the Middle Miocene of the Paratethys area (Romania and Hungary). A lectotype, chosen among Karrer’s material housed in the Naturwissenschaften Museum of Vienna, is here indicated. The remains of Cymopolia miocenica consist of sterile and fertile calcareous articles. The sterile bodies are usually cylindrical, while the fertile ones are elongated to short barrel-shaped. All the articles are strongly calcified except around the outer swollen part of primary laterals of fertile whorls. The original aragonitic calcification looks still preserved, a fact probably related to the conservation in clay. The calcified structure exhibits the same pattern as in the extant species. A reconstruction of the alga is supplie
Scienze dell'antichità. Storia, archeologia, antropologia (2016). Vol. 22/2: Ubi minor... Le isole minori del Mediterraneo centrale dal Neolitico ai primi contatti coloniali
No full textSono qui presentati gli atti del Convegno di Studi in ricordo di Giorgio Buchner, a 100 anni dalla nascita (1914-2014), Anacapri, 27 ottobre - Capri, 28 ottobre - Ischia/Lacco Ameno, 29 ottobre 2014. General aspects of the geology of Capri during the Quaternary are sketched and a morph-evolution of the island is reviewed. Latest Pleistocene-Holocene land deposits are described and a geological map is supplied
Il rinnovato interesse per Svetonio (Aug., 72, 3)
No full textAt the end of 1905, in the Chartreuse plain an excavation 31x17m wide and 8m deep was made when the Hotel Quisisana was being enlarged. Ignazio Cerio, a doctor, collected a lot of Pleistocene teeth and bones of fossil large mammals together with Lower Palaeolithic stone implements found in the same place. The important discovery promptly was related to Suetonius (AUG., 72, 3) influencing its interpretation until today. According to recent geological data the attribution of “extraordinary large bones of enormous animals” to the Quisisana fossil remains looks very unlikely. Likewise the ascription of “heroes’ weapons” to Acheulean artefacts appears highly improbable
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