BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk//
X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Reforming Naples/how to use a network: Vesuvius and savants in the
  two kingdoms of Sicily - John Brewer (California Institute of Technology)
DTSTART:20171109T153000Z
DTEND:20171109T170000Z
UID:TALK85011@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Agnes Bolinska
DESCRIPTION:This paper shows how an international interest in Vesuvius was
  exploited by reformist savants in nineteenth-century Naples to promote a 
 modernizing agenda for the Kingdom. It focuses on one key figure\, Teodoro
  Monticelli\, secretary of the Royal Scientific Academy\, who connected re
 formers in Naples\, concerned with public health\, ecology\, education and
  infra-structural development to an international network of scholars (fro
 m Brazil to Russia) studying the volcano. Monticelli not only worked in Na
 ples with figures such as Davy\, Humboldt\, Biot\, Babbage\, Buckland and 
 Lyell\, and put together collections of Vesuvian rocks and minerals for Ac
 ademies in Europe and the Americas\, but with his colleagues used these in
 ternational connections and recognition to push a reforming agenda within 
 the kingdom itself.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR