Under our feet
Stories of Earthquakes, Earthquake Survivors, Scientists and Charlatans
by Alessandro Amato
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After every earthquake, there is always someone who had predicted it: the Mayas, your aunt Suzie or the neighbour’s dog. The predictors do not trust science, but believe that toads run away before earthquakes, that they can be triggered off by the NATO and oil drills, that scientists can predict them but say nothing because they hate winning Nobel Prizes. For guidance in this tangle of science and pseudo-science, this book is a journey through the history of earthquakes and the attempts to predict them, marked by very few correct ones and countless failures. Stories of scientists and philosophers (from Lucretius to Kant, Aristotle and Rousseau), of earthquakes and their survivors (from China to Russia, from California to L’Aquila), bizarre theories (scientific and otherwise) and picturesque figures. Up to the most recent discoveries of seismological research which, despite the amazing progress made by technology, still do not allow precisely predicting earthquakes.
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Codice Edizioni srl
Codice Edizioni was founded in Turin in September 2003 with the goal of renovating Italy’s traditional non-fiction and popular science publishing; science in its many variations (physics, evolutionism, technology, natural sciences), as a key to interpreting modern society
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- Publisher Codice edizioni
- Orginal LanguageItalian
- ISBN/Identifier 9788875785727
- Publication Country or regionItaly
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleSotto i nostri piedi
- Copyright Year2016
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