La Corrispondenza Di Ottaviano Targioni Tozzetti

Vergari, Daniele

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“…In this fonds is also preserved the correspondence of Ottaviano Targioni Tozzetti (1755-1826), a naturalist and an expert in mineralogy, who maintained scientific relationships with the Natural History Museum of Firenze. The analysis of Ottaviano Targioni Tozzetti's scientific correspondence showed how his studies on meteorites were well known to the scientific community of the time, to the point that he had a close exchange of letters with Ambrogio Soldani (1733-1808) about the mineralogical analyses carried out on the Siena meteorite (1794) [52][53][126][127][128]. On 13 July 1824, Ottaviano Targioni Tozzetti received from Camillo Ranzani "a very small fragment of the aerolite that fell on Renazzo" in exchange for "fossil bones from Valdarno, in particular hippopotamus and rhinoceros' bones" [129] (Figure 10).…”

Section: The Renazzo Meteorite (1824): Cataloguing a Meteorite Specimmentioning

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Meteorites as a Scientific Heritage

Franza

Pratesi

2020

Cons. Património

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This paper investigates the importance of meteorites as a scientific heritage. While the significance of meteorites as natural heritage is relatively easy to establish, the implication of their meaning as scientific heritage may be more difficult to define. With this aim in mind, in this paper, we present the catalogue standards for meteorite specimens, preserved either in natural history museums or in private collections, proposed by the Italian Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione–ICCD (Central Institute for Catalogue and Documentation). This work outlines the structure of the catalogue card that describes the meteorite specimen along with other information related to the sample (e.g., archival documentation on collectors and traders, museum catalogues and inventories, general bibliography). This essay concludes discussing the cataloguing, according to ICCD standards, of two Renazzo meteorite specimens, which fell in the eponymous Italian village in 1824 and are now preserved at the Natural History Museum of the University of Firenze.

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Section: The Renazzo Meteorite (1824): Cataloguing a Meteorite Specimmentioning

confidence: 99%