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SUMMARY:'Objects\, images\, books'. Networks of validation in mid-nineteen
 th-century geology: Italy\, France\, England - Pietro Corsi (University of
  Oxford)
DTSTART:20071008T120000Z
DTEND:20071008T131500Z
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CONTACT:Salim Al-Gailani
DESCRIPTION:Igino Cocchi (1827-1913)\, a graduate from the University of P
 isa\, travelled to Paris and London between April 1854 and the summer of 1
 857. On behalf of his Pisa mentor\, the algologist turned palaeontologist 
 Giuseppe Meneghini (1811-1889)\, he attended public scientific meetings an
 d visited private collections and salons. His task was to enlist the help 
 of Parisian and British geologists and palaeontologist for the identificat
 ion of Sardinian fossils. Meneghini was in fact engaged in publishing the 
 palaeontological section of General Alberto della Marmora’s Description 
 géologique of the island.. The repeated conversations he had with authori
 ties ranging from E. de Verneuil\, A. d’Orbigny\, C. Prevost\, A. Brongn
 iart\, J. Haime and C.-E. Bayle to J. Barrande\, C. Lyell\, R. Owen or J. 
 Phillips featured prominently in the correspondence with his teacher in Pi
 sa. The more than one hundred letters the two naturalists exchanged over t
 his period provide a fascinating insight into the complex dynamics of the 
 Paris and London scientific scenes. Cocchi’s youthful and gentlemanlike 
 enthusiasm for his scientific vocation clashed against the reality of the 
 complex and at times unpleasant social negotiations required to accomplish
  his mission. 
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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