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: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/...
Peter Francis and Clive Oppenheimer - Volcanoes (Second Edition): global.oup.com/academic/produ...
Haraldur Sigurðsson - Melting the Earth: global.oup.com/academic/produ...
Sir William Hamilton: Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and Other Volcanoes: www.gutenberg.org/files/35433...
Public Domain Review - Tempest Anderson: publicdomainreview.org/essay/...
Cambridge - Greeks in Italy: bit.ly/3xNymQk
Britannica - Pliny the Elder: www.britannica.com/biography/...
Pliny the Younger's Letters: bit.ly/3Wec1pd
Telliamed: archive.org/details/telliamed...
Hamilton's Reports: web.english.upenn.edu/~cavitc...
Wegner - The Origin of Continents and Oceans: bit.ly/4b7ULH7
Illustrations:
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Francesco Geri, Filippo Morghen: bit.ly/3xQfikw
Pierre-Jacques Volaire - Eruption of Vesuvius - www.artic.edu/artworks/57996/...
Luigi Mayer: bit.ly/3UbagGH
Antonio Tempesta - Apollo at Vulcan's Forge: bit.ly/4b9wYGg
Mathäus Küsel - Cavern of Aeolus: bit.ly/4aZcGz8
Etna engraving: bit.ly/3JzrqJs
Albert Bierstadt - Mount Vesuvius at Midnight: bit.ly/3xQiJru
Alexandre-Hyacinthe Dunouy - The 1813 Eruption of Vesuvius: bit.ly/4aP9xSG
Vitruvius: bit.ly/3y290hE
Thomas Sutherland: bit.ly/44fzFUl
Early Vesuvius painting: bit.ly/49UJFn9
Gottfried Eichler, Jacob Wangner, Johann Georg Hertel: bit.ly/3Ug2cEP
Page: bit.ly/4aK8Km0
Vesuvius: bit.ly/4b5pDHC
Joseph Wright of Derby - Vesuvius from Portici: bit.ly/4ddUrrE
The blessed Francesco Saverio Maria Bianchi blesses poor and sick people: bit.ly/4aNDgLI
Horace Vernet: bit.ly/3JvjcSz
Alessandro d' Anna: bit.ly/49KRDiM
Comet: bit.ly/3QjrNLY
Hamilton: images.rmg.co.uk/asset/22910/
Spallanzani: bit.ly/44kg6KB
Jacob More, John William Edy: bit.ly/3U51YA4
Photos:
Library of Congress: www.loc.gov/item/2020684402/
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Tempest Anderson: bit.ly/3xU77Up
Maps/Graphics:
Map of Italy: catalog.archives.gov/id/15908...
World Map: bit.ly/3y2OUE0
Public Doman Review - Athanasius Kircher: bit.ly/4aZy0VK
Athanasius Kircher Map: bit.ly/3UkmaOy
Public Doman Review - Levi Walter Yaggy’s Geographical Maps and Charts: publicdomainreview.org/collec...
Earth rings: jstor.org/stable/community.26...
Seismograms: jstor.org/stable/community.26...
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Library of Congress: 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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It's amazin that Naples was built so close to Vesuvius knowing the history of the area, almost like Italians are playing Russian roulette with their fiture.

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Naples was already there, the destroyed towns we know of are Ercolano and Pompei close to Naples, but still kilometers away. Vesuvius is now considered not that dangerous anymore, the actual danger are Campi Flegrei North of Naples: that's a volcanic area at sea level, but we know that in the future it will become a huge volcano like Vesuvius or Etna. Moreover, one of the reasons is that the place is just beautiful, unfortunately he doesn't say or clearly shows, but there's town on the cone of Vesuvius, Etna and the houses he shows with the black sand their on Stromboli, take a look at a map the whole island is basically a volcano and there's a town there, it's just wonderful and attracts a lot of tourists every year

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@@mrnalan88 ... I don't agree at all. At only about 13 miles away & given its potential, Vesuvius could endanger more than 3 million people and wipe out the city of Naples.

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The area around Vesuvius attracted a lot of people because thanks to the ashes the ground there is extremely fertile. Now you can't just move millions of people or at least not until there are certain signs of eruption. People are going to stay at their homes anyway unless they are directly faced with the consequences. The island of vulcano on the other hand is pretty safe even though there is a volcano always erupting by the simple fact that that volcano just doesn't accumulate much power since it just continues to erupt. That means that a bigger eruption is virtually impossible until it continues to erupt uninterruptedly

[@theodorejay1046]

@@nicolodalmonego2785 ... For some vulcanologists Vesuvius remains the second most dangerous volcano in the world. Yes you can't move Naples but that doesn't make it safe, like Los Angeles sits on one of the most dangerous earth quake zones in the world.

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First of all, incredible video! I myself am currently doing a master in geology & am extremely interested in volcanoes. I often think to myself that I'm born in the wrong generation. Science right now is so based on lab work, but I would've been the dude poking lava with a stick and hanging around in areas not particularly safe. I look up to the volcanologists who were risking their lives to improve our knowledge and would strangely love to be one of them. But sadly for me, that time is mostly behind us.

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Great video! My father (now 97 & living in Canada) comes from Stromboli. I visited relatives on the island once, and it was so weird to have a thriving village on the side of an active volcano, with a plume of smoke visible almost every day, and even sometimes lava flowing down the other side of the mountain. Tourism's pretty active there too, and it's a fascinating place to visit. (His brother was actually a university professor who wrote a scholarly book about the Aeolian Islands, but I don't know whether it's been translated into English. Which I could easily look up, but I'm incredibly lazy.)

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