Giovanni Serafino Volta

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Giovanni Serafino Volta (* 1764 ; † 1842 ) was an Italian clergyman , mineralogist and paleontologist .

Volta was canon of the Basilica of St. Andrea in Mantua and curator of the natural history cabinet of the University of Pavia . He published a textbook on mineralogy that was also translated into German and a monograph on fossil fish from Monte Bolca .

Fonts

  • Elementi di Mineralogia, Analitica e Sistematica, Pavia 1787
    • German translation, Vienna, Leipzig 1793 (foundations of analytical and systematic mineralogy).
  • Chemical-mineralogical experiment on the baths and mountains of Baaden, Vienna 1792 (translation by Karl Freiherr von Meidinger)
  • Ittiolitologia Veronese del Museo Bozziano ora annesso a quello del Conte Giouambattista Gazola e di altri gabinetti di fossili Veronesi con la versione Latina, 2 volumes, Verona 1796

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SURNAME Volta, Giovanni Serafino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian clergyman, mineralogist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1764
DATE OF DEATH 1842