Risk Landscapes Institutions and Scientific Knowledge in Southern Italy - 18th-20th Centuries

Salvatore Esposito; Adele Naddeo

doi:10.6093/978-88-6887-411-7

Risk Landscapes Institutions and Scientific Knowledge in Southern Italy - 18th-20th Centuries

Authors

Salvatore Esposito

University of Naples Federico II

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3099-5574

Adele Naddeo

University of Naples Federico II

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0723-9343

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6887-411-7

Keywords:

Scientific institutions, Scientific practices, Southern Italy, Meteorological observatories, Sismic observatories

Synopsis

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: SISFA Studies in the History of Physics and Astronomy

Pages: 230

Language: Italian

Abstract: This volume contains the Proceedings of the Conference “Risk Landscapes. Institutions and Scientific Knowledge in Southern Italy - 18th-20th Centuries” held in Bari in June 2025, which saw the participation of scholars from various disciplines, both humanistic and scientific. The Conference is part of the PRIN PNRR 2022 research project “South Risk. From data collection to monitoring interventions and risk prevention. A southern history”, coordinated by the Department of Humanistic Research and Innovation at the Aldo Moro University of Bari. The topics covered include the birth of meteorological observatories between Bari, Naples, and Messina and the observations conducted there until the beginning of the 20th century, with particular attention to: instrumentation and measurement protocols; in-depth analysis of the scientific activity of authoritative scholars of the time in the fields of meteorological, engineering, and environmental science; the study of environmental disasters and catastrophic seismic events that occurred in Southern Italy during the reference period; the close relationship between the hydrogeology of the territories and the development of particular pathologies (malaria), with particular reference to the case of Daunia; the environmental impact of human activities.

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Author Biographies

Salvatore Esposito, University of Naples Federico II

Salvatore Esposito is Professor in History of Physics at the Federico II University of Naples and past President of the Italian Society of Historians of Physics and Astronomy (SISFA). Considered one of the world's leading experts on the published and unpublished works of Ettore Majorana, he has also focused his studies on key figures in the history of contemporary physics and 18th- and 19th-century physics.

Adele Naddeo, University of Naples Federico II

Adele Naddeo obtained a MSc in Physics at the University of Naples in 1995 and a PhD in Physics from the same university in 2001. She has carried out research in theoretical physics and condensed matter physics. Currently her research interests range from history of physics to foundations of quantum mechanics and gravity. She co-authored more than 120 publications in international journals and conference proceedings.