Between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the institutionalization of Earth sciences was made possible by the spread, across Europe, of rather commonly known experimental approaches, which were partly based on mountain exploration. The scientific travel to the mountains acquired its own tools and practices soon, and made an important contribution to the emergence of historical geology. Against this backdrop, the geological as well as natural nowledge of the Alps and Prealps took place, involving several Italian and Eu ropean scholars. This paper, after brief considerations on the biography of Paolo Sangiorgio, an Italian savant, offers the complete edition of the unpublished manuscript (1771) of his journey to Valsassina (Lombard Prealps, Northern Italy). The report of his surveys to the east of the lake of Como is certainly a significant primary source about the epistemic value that the scientific travel had acquired by the first half of the nineteenth century

Dalla seconda metà del diciottesimo secolo, il viaggio scientifico in montagna divenne una pratica di indagine piuttosto comune tra gli studiosi, ita liani ed europei, della superficie terrestre. L’esplorazione scientifica dei rilievi montuosi oltre a favorire la loro graduale conoscenza geologica e naturalistica, contribuì alla progressiva istituzionalizzazione delle scienze della Terra. L’articolo, dopo un’introduzione di sintesi sulla figura di Paolo Sangiorgio, savant milanese sette-ottocentesco, ripropone la trascrizione integrale della relazione del viaggio (1771) che egli condusse in Valsassina. Questa circoscrive, senza dubbio, una testimonianza primaria di rilievo, grazie alla quale poter cogliere anche il valore epistemico che il viaggio scientifico su Alpi e Prealpi acquisì tra Sette e Ottocento

Il viaggio settecentesco di Paolo Sangiorgio in Valsassina

Candela, Andrea
2017-01-01

Abstract

Between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the institutionalization of Earth sciences was made possible by the spread, across Europe, of rather commonly known experimental approaches, which were partly based on mountain exploration. The scientific travel to the mountains acquired its own tools and practices soon, and made an important contribution to the emergence of historical geology. Against this backdrop, the geological as well as natural nowledge of the Alps and Prealps took place, involving several Italian and Eu ropean scholars. This paper, after brief considerations on the biography of Paolo Sangiorgio, an Italian savant, offers the complete edition of the unpublished manuscript (1771) of his journey to Valsassina (Lombard Prealps, Northern Italy). The report of his surveys to the east of the lake of Como is certainly a significant primary source about the epistemic value that the scientific travel had acquired by the first half of the nineteenth century
2017
2017
http://www.viaggiatorijournal.com/rivista_singolo.php?idRivista=1
Paolo Sangiorgio, history of Earth Sciences, scientific travel
Candela, Andrea
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