The First Volcanologists

Thanks to Milanote for sponsoring this video! Sign up for free with no time limit: https://milanote.com/aidinrobbins Exploring Italy's erupting volcanoes- and the centuries of history, mythology, and science born from their slopes. Huge thanks to Eric Matt for helping shoot this one:   / ericmattt   🎧 Sound effects I use for my videos: https://bit.ly/2WI2aJ7 Become a channel member to access raw footage and extended tutorials:    / @aidinrobbins   Further reading: Clive Oppenheimer - Mountains of Fire: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/... Peter Francis and Clive Oppenheimer - Volcanoes (Second Edition): https://global.oup.com/academic/produ... Haraldur Sigurðsson - Melting the Earth: https://global.oup.com/academic/produ... Sir William Hamilton: Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and Other Volcanoes: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/35433... Public Domain Review - Tempest Anderson: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/... Cambridge - Greeks in Italy: https://bit.ly/3xNymQk Britannica - Pliny the Elder: https://www.britannica.com/biography/... Pliny the Younger's Letters: https://bit.ly/3Wec1pd Telliamed: https://archive.org/details/telliamed... Hamilton's Reports: https://web.english.upenn.edu/~cavitc... Wegner - The Origin of Continents and Oceans: https://bit.ly/4b7ULH7 Illustrations: Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/item/2016649799/ https://www.loc.gov/item/2006677663/ https://www.loc.gov/item/2001700924/ Wellcome Collection: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/... https://wellcomecollection.org/works/... https://wellcomecollection.org/works/... https://wellcomecollection.org/works/... https://wellcomecollection.org/works/... https://wellcomecollection.org/works/... https://wellcomecollection.org/works/... https://wellcomecollection.org/works/... https://wellcomecollection.org/works/... https://wellcomecollection.org/works/... https://wellcomecollection.org/works/... https://wellcomecollection.org/works/... Francesco Geri, Filippo Morghen: https://bit.ly/3xQfikw Pierre-Jacques Volaire - Eruption of Vesuvius - https://www.artic.edu/artworks/57996/... Luigi Mayer: https://bit.ly/3UbagGH Antonio Tempesta - Apollo at Vulcan's Forge: https://bit.ly/4b9wYGg Mathäus Küsel - Cavern of Aeolus: https://bit.ly/4aZcGz8 Etna engraving: https://bit.ly/3JzrqJs Albert Bierstadt - Mount Vesuvius at Midnight: https://bit.ly/3xQiJru Alexandre-Hyacinthe Dunouy - The 1813 Eruption of Vesuvius: https://bit.ly/4aP9xSG Vitruvius: https://bit.ly/3y290hE Thomas Sutherland: https://bit.ly/44fzFUl Early Vesuvius painting: https://bit.ly/49UJFn9 Gottfried Eichler, Jacob Wangner, Johann Georg Hertel: https://bit.ly/3Ug2cEP Page: https://bit.ly/4aK8Km0 Vesuvius: https://bit.ly/4b5pDHC Joseph Wright of Derby - Vesuvius from Portici: https://bit.ly/4ddUrrE The blessed Francesco Saverio Maria Bianchi blesses poor and sick people: https://bit.ly/4aNDgLI Horace Vernet: https://bit.ly/3JvjcSz Alessandro d' Anna: https://bit.ly/49KRDiM Comet: https://bit.ly/3QjrNLY Hamilton: https://images.rmg.co.uk/asset/22910/ Spallanzani: https://bit.ly/44kg6KB Jacob More, John William Edy: https://bit.ly/3U51YA4 Photos: Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/item/2020684402/ https://www.loc.gov/item/2020684407/ https://www.loc.gov/item/2020684429/ https://www.loc.gov/item/2020683136/ https://www.loc.gov/item/2020683148/ https://www.loc.gov/item/2007683669/ Tempest Anderson: https://bit.ly/3xU77Up Maps/Graphics: Map of Italy: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/15908... World Map: https://bit.ly/3y2OUE0 Public Doman Review - Athanasius Kircher: https://bit.ly/4aZy0VK Athanasius Kircher Map: https://bit.ly/3UkmaOy Public Doman Review - Levi Walter Yaggy’s Geographical Maps and Charts: https://publicdomainreview.org/collec... Earth rings: https://jstor.org/stable/community.26... Seismograms: https://jstor.org/stable/community.26... https://jstor.org/stable/community.26... Library of Congress: https://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 The links above are affiliate links, from which I gain a small monetary compensation when purchases are made. They help keep the lights on ;)