Theory, Practice, and Nature In-between: Antonio Vallisneri's 'Primi Itineris Specimen'
In the summer of 1704, Antonio Vallisneri (1661–1730), the preeminent Italian physician and natural philosopher of his time, traveled with a “daring soul” and “trembling feet” across the “silent horrors” of the northern Apennines: down the hills south of Reggio Emilia to northern Tuscany and the wes...
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