De corporibus marinis lapidescentibus quæ defossa reperiuntur: addita dissertatione fabii columnæ de glossopetris
Auteur :
Scilla, Agostino / Colonna, Fabio
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781108084833
Date de publication :
2 juil. 2015
Dimensions :
25,4 x 17,8 x 0,7 cm
Poids :
250 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
This illustrated 1752 publication brings together two seventeenth-century works that paved the way for the study of palaeontology. Sicilian artist Agostino Scilla (1629–1700) and Neapolitan botanist Fabio Colonna (1567–1640) both argued that fossils were the remains of living organisms rather than extraordinary mineral phenomena with magical properties.