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The History of Fossils Over Centuries - From Folklore to Science (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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The History of Fossils Over Centuries - From Folklore to Science (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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This book discusses the history of invertebrate fossil
understanding and classification by exploring fossil studies
between the 15th and 18th centuries. Before the modern age, the
understanding of fossil findings went through several phases. The
treatment by philologists, philosophers and historians of natural
sciences involved religious, sometimes folkloristic, aspects before
scientific ones. This work showcases and assesses these original
findings by carrying out a bibliographical, and above all
iconographical research, aimed at finding the first printed images
of the objects that we now know as fossils. From here, the authors
provide an understanding of the true nature of fossils by analyzing
them through modern academic viewpoints, and describing each fossil
group from a paleontological and taxonomic point of view, retracing
their treatment in the course of the centuries. As a point of
reference for each fossil group treated, the authors have
considered indispensable the use of ancient prints as evidence of
the first iconographic sources dedicated to fossils, starting from
those in the late fifteenth century, dedicated to the most common
groups of invertebrates without neglecting a necessary exception,
the ichthyodontolites, fundamental in the discussion in Italy on
the interpretation of the organic origin of fossils, and from the
end of the sixteenth century to about half of the eighteenth
century. The abundant iconographic apparatus used, often
unpublished or specially reworked, is essential and functional to
the understanding of the various aspects addressed, a visual
complement to the text and vice versa, designed and used taking its
cue from the need imposed on early scholars to document their
discoveries visually. Among the chosen images there is no shortage
of original attributions to fossil finds that have been poorly
understood or misidentified until now. The English translation of
this book from its Italian original manuscript was done with the
help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service
provider DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision of the content was
done by the authors.
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