S35. Roots and future of Geosciences: a historical perspective

Conveners and Chairpersons: Simone Fabbi (Sapienza Università di Roma), Anna Giamborino (Università di Bologna), Daniele Musumeci (Università degli Studi di Catania), Ezio Vaccari (Università degli Studi dell'Insubria)

 

 

ORAL SESSIONS

Tuesday 16 September 2025 [11.30-13.00]

Sala Palladio B

35-1     11.30 - 11.40
Giamborino A.* & Contessi M. : Marginalized and obscured, yet pioneering, inspiring and revolutionary: the legacy of Mary Anning

35-2     11.40 - 11.50
Roghi G.*, Giusberti L. & Zorzin R. : A historical attempt to reconstruct the excavations of Ypresian Pesciara and Monte Postale sites (Bolca, northeastern Italy)

35-3     11.50 - 12.00
Histon K.* : Historical perspectives and roots of geological studies in the Red Sea area by Arturo Issel (1842–1922)

35-4     12.00 - 12.10
Musumeci D.* & Roghi G. : Scrope and his contribution to the Italian Nineteenth-Century Volcanology

35-5     12.10 - 12.20
Napolitani M.* : Visions. The Earth Sciences in the popular literature of the 19th Century

35-6     12.20 - 12.30
Conticelli S.* & Peccerillo A. : The historical evolution of the Petrographic (Magmatic) Province idea since the Nineteenth century

35-7     12.30 - 12.40
Sammuri P.* & Macini P. : Early investigations on Italian coal deposits: Giovanni Fabbroni’s geological and mining studies in Tuscany (1790)

35-8     12.40 - 12.50
Argentieri A.*, Alippi A., Alippi C., De Ritis R. & Rotella G. : Tito Alippi, the scientist of the ethereal

35-9     12.50 - 13.00
Candela A.* : The nuclear issue: the contribution of the Earth Sciences in a historical perspective


POSTER SESSION

Tuesday 16 September 2025

Poster Area 1

35-10     Booth 143
Cossino M.*, Cappellina M., Castelli D., Elia D., Giorgione C., Patti M., Sandri T. & Senesi M. : Bridging science and society: geological plaster reliefs as Interdisciplinary tools between 19th–20th Century

35-11     Booth 144
Macini P.* : Valerius Faventies’ De montium origine (1561): a dialogue on the origin of mountains

35-12     Booth 145
Macini P.* : Ramazzini’s geological field trip to the oil springs of Montegibbio (1698)

35-13     Booth 146
Romano M.* : The fossil as evidence: Paolo Boccone and the emergence of naturalistic explanation

35-14     Booth 147
Romano M.* : From curiosity cabinet to 'scientific' method: the palaeontological legacy of Ferrante Imperato

35-15     Booth 148
Fabbi S.* : The “Montirozzi” of Civitavecchia: A case study of historical documentation of hydrothermal activity

35-16     Booth 149
Argentieri A.*, Rotella G., Capelli G. & Mazza R. : Some liked it hot in 1852: a study about the thermal springs of Stigliano (Tolfa Mts., Latium)

35-17     Booth 150
Bellini F., Bellini D., Clemente F., Sabato L.* & Tropeano M. : Geoheritage in the rupestrian town of Laterza (Puglia, southern Italy): the example of the Mascheroni Fountain

35-18     Booth 151
Faccioli M. & Vaccari E.* : Communicating and representing geological phenomena in the Italian journals between 18th and 19th centuries

35-19     Booth 152
Vaccari E.* : Paolo Gorini's public experiment on volcanoes formation (1872)

35-20     Booth 153
Lustrino M.* : The difference between a sceptic and a negationist. The CO2 business and the role of geologists in a greener future