The First Volcanologists Were Wild

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Exploring Italy's erupting volcanoes- and the centuries of history, mythology, and science born from their slopes.

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Further reading:
Clive Oppenheimer - Mountains of Fire: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/...
Peter Francis and Clive Oppenheimer - Volcanoes (Second Edition): https://global.oup.com/academic/produ...
Haraldur Sigurðsson - Melting the Earth: https://global.oup.com/academic/produ...
Sir William Hamilton: Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and Other Volcanoes: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/35433...
Public Domain Review - Tempest Anderson: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/...
Cambridge - Greeks in Italy: https://bit.ly/3xNymQk
Britannica - Pliny the Elder: https://www.britannica.com/biography/...
Pliny the Younger's Letters: https://bit.ly/3Wec1pd
Telliamed: https://archive.org/details/telliamed...
Hamilton's Reports: https://web.english.upenn.edu/~cavitc...
Wegner - The Origin of Continents and Oceans: https://bit.ly/4b7ULH7

Illustrations:
Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/item/2016649799/
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Francesco Geri, Filippo Morghen: https://bit.ly/3xQfikw
Pierre-Jacques Volaire - Eruption of Vesuvius - https://www.artic.edu/artworks/57996/...
Luigi Mayer: https://bit.ly/3UbagGH
Antonio Tempesta - Apollo at Vulcan's Forge: https://bit.ly/4b9wYGg
Mathäus Küsel - Cavern of Aeolus: https://bit.ly/4aZcGz8
Etna engraving: https://bit.ly/3JzrqJs
Albert Bierstadt - Mount Vesuvius at Midnight: https://bit.ly/3xQiJru
Alexandre-Hyacinthe Dunouy - The 1813 Eruption of Vesuvius: https://bit.ly/4aP9xSG
Vitruvius: https://bit.ly/3y290hE
Thomas Sutherland: https://bit.ly/44fzFUl
Early Vesuvius painting: https://bit.ly/49UJFn9
Gottfried Eichler, Jacob Wangner, Johann Georg Hertel: https://bit.ly/3Ug2cEP
Page: https://bit.ly/4aK8Km0
Vesuvius: https://bit.ly/4b5pDHC
Joseph Wright of Derby - Vesuvius from Portici: https://bit.ly/4ddUrrE
The blessed Francesco Saverio Maria Bianchi blesses poor and sick people: https://bit.ly/4aNDgLI
Horace Vernet: https://bit.ly/3JvjcSz
Alessandro d' Anna: https://bit.ly/49KRDiM
Comet: https://bit.ly/3QjrNLY
Hamilton: https://images.rmg.co.uk/asset/22910/
Spallanzani: https://bit.ly/44kg6KB
Jacob More, John William Edy: https://bit.ly/3U51YA4

Photos:
Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/item/2020684402/
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Tempest Anderson: https://bit.ly/3xU77Up

Maps/Graphics:
Map of Italy: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/15908...
World Map: https://bit.ly/3y2OUE0
Public Doman Review - Athanasius Kircher: https://bit.ly/4aZy0VK
Athanasius Kircher Map: https://bit.ly/3UkmaOy
Public Doman Review - Levi Walter Yaggy’s Geographical Maps and Charts: https://publicdomainreview.org/collec...
Earth rings: https://jstor.org/stable/community.26...
Seismograms: https://jstor.org/stable/community.26...
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Library of Congress: https://bit.ly/3Wed3BB

0:00 - Intro
2:00 - Sponsor
4:05 - Ancient Greece
6:04 - Ancient Rome
7:47 - Vesuvius Erupts
10:20 - The Church
11:30 - The Renaissance
14:51 - The First Volcanologists
18:19 - Completing the Puzzle
19:22 - Outro

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