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Keywords

Textual Criticism, Social History, Science and Religion, Republic of Letters, Renaissance Studies, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy, Natural Philosophy, LaTeX, Intellectual History, Hydrogeology, History of Medicine, History of Biology, History, Groundwater, Ecdotics, Early Modern Science, Early Modern Italy, Early Modern History, Early Modern Europe, Diluvialism, Digital Humanities, Databases, Cultural History, Antonio Vallisneri, History of Science, History of Geology, Francesco Luzzini, Anthropocene Studies

Countries

United States, Italy, Germany

Biography

My research focuses mainly on the Earth and environmental sciences, natural philosophy, and medicine in early modern Europe, with important forays into modern and contemporary contexts. My current project aims to understand how the debate on mineral generation and natural resource management in early modern Europe influenced the development of natural philosophy, the Earth sciences, and the role of humans as geological and environmental agents.

I am Contributing Editor for the Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science. I believe in the Digital Humanities and Open Access ideals of accessibility and democratization of knowledge: I strive to make my work accessible to a virtually unlimited audience of students, scholars and academics, as well as to the general public.

I believe in freedom of expression and dissent (yes, even in academia).

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Employment (14)

Vita-Salute San Raffaele University: Milan, IT

2024-09 to present | Adjunct (Faculty of Philosophy)
Employment
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology: Jena, Thuringia, DE

2023-09-01 to present | Research Associate (Department Structural Changes of the Technosphere)
Employment
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Università Ca' Foscari: Venezia, Veneto, IT

2021-09-01 to 2024-08-31 | Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow (Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage)
Employment
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Johns Hopkins University: Baltimore, Maryland, US

2021-11-01 to 2023-07-31 | Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow (Department of History of Science and Technology)
Employment
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte: Berlin, Berlin, DE

2017-01-11 to 2022-12-31 | Research Affiliate (Department I)
Employment
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Antonio Vallisneri: Milano, Lombardia, IT

2009-09 to 2021 | Scientific Manager of the Electronic Inventory of Vallisneri’s Correspondence
Employment
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

MuSe - Museum of Sciences: Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, IT

2017-10-02 to 2019-10-01 | Research Fellow (Geology and Paleontology)
Employment
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale: Novara, Piedmont, IT

2016 to 2017 | Lecturer, History of Early Modern Medicine (Master’s Program in Narrative Medicine)
Employment
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte: Berlin, Berlin, DE

2016-07-01 to 2016-12-31 | Visiting Fellow
Employment
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

University of Oklahoma: Norman, OK, US

2015-01-26 to 2016-12-31 | Edition Open Sources Postdoctoral Fellow (University of Oklahoma Libraries)
Employment
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Università degli Studi dell'Insubria: Varese, Lombardy, IT

2015-10-01 to 2016-10-01 | Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Dipartimento di Scienze Teoriche e Applicate)
Employment
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Università degli Studi di Milano: Milano, Lombardia, IT

2012-09 to 2015-09 | Adjunct Professor of History of Biology (Dipartimento di Bioscienze)
Employment
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale: Vercelli, Piemonte, IT

2010-02-01 to 2013-05-02 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici)
Employment
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale: Vercelli, Piemonte, IT

2010-09 to 2011-09 | Adjunct Professor of History of Geology (Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici)
Employment
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Education and qualifications (9)

Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research: Rome, IT

2020 to present | Habilitation Degree in History of Science, Associate Professor
Qualification
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research: Rome, IT

2014 to 2020 | Habilitation Degree in History of Science, Associate Professor
Qualification
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Scuola di Filosofia e Storia della Biologia e della Medicina (SIBIOM): Nettuno, Lazio, IT

2012-09-20 to 2012-09-22 | Summer School (Course: Il corpo del piacere)
Education
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro: Bari, Puglia, IT

2009-04-09 | Ph.D., History of Science (Dottorato di Ricerca in Storia della Scienza)
Education
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Biblioteca Leonardiana: Vinci, Toscana, IT

2007-09-14 to 2007-09-21 | Summer School (Course: The Human Body between Art and Science in the Renaissance)
Education
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Università degli Studi di Milano: Milano, Lombardia, IT

2005-07-04 | M.S., Natural Sciences (Laurea Magistrale in Scienze Naturali)
Education
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

European Commission Joint Research Centre Ispra Sector: Ispra, Lombardia, IT

2002-07-01 to 2003-01-31 | Apprenticeship - Hypolimnic water analysis
Education
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Parco Naturale Adamello Brenta: Strembo, Trentino-Alto Adige, IT

2001-03-01 to 2001-06-30 | Apprenticeship – LIFE-URSUS Project – Reintroduction of the Brown Bear (Ursus arctos) in Northeastern Italy
Education
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Istituto Salesiano S. Ambrogio: Milano, Lombardia, IT

1996-06 | Classical Lyceum (Diploma di Maturità Classica)
Education
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Professional activities (18)

UNESCO Chair "Water, Heritage and Sustainable Development"; New Institute Center of Environmental Humanities (NICHE): Venice, IT

2023-10 to present | Associate Scholar
Invited position
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

The History of Earth Sciences Society: //, US

2022-01-01 to present | Nominating Committee Member
Invited position
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science (IsisCB): Norman, OK, US

2022 to present | Advisory Board Member
Service
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Antonio Vallisneri National Edition: Milan, IT

2022-01-01 to present | Committee Member
Invited position
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Marie Curie Alumni Association - Italy Chapter: Rome, IT

2021 to present | Member
Membership
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

History of Science Society (HSS): Philadelphia, PA, US

2018 to present | Membership
Membership
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science (IsisCB): Norman, OK, US

2017-08 to present | Contributing Editor, Italian Language Sources
Service
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

The History of Earth Sciences Society: //, US

2016-01 to present | Member
Membership
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Centro Studi Lazzaro Spallanzani: Scandiano, Emilia Romagna, IT

2013-01 to present | Member
Membership
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences: //, US

2012 to present | Member
Membership
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

European Commission: Brussels, BE

2021-09-01 to 2024-08-31 | Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship Award, Horizon 2020-MSCA2020 Project “Sounding the Depths of Providence” (SOUNDEPTH)
Invited position
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Il Protagora (Journal): Varese, Lombardy, IT

2017-01 to 2023-12-31 | Editorial Officer (History of Science)
Invited position
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Renaissance Society of America: New York, NY, US

2020 to 2021 | Member
Membership
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

European Commission: Brussels, BE

2020 | Marie Skłodowska -Curie Seal of Excellence, Horizon 2020-MSCA Global Fellowship
Distinction
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Earth Sciences History, Journal of the HESS: //, US

2016-01 to 2019-12 | Councilor
Invited position
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

History of Science Society: Notre Dame, Indiana, US

2017-08 to 2018-08 | Member
Membership
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

ISCH COST Action “Reassembling the Republic of Letters, 1500-1800 ”: Oxford, GB

2015-01 to 2018 | Affiliate Scholar
Invited position
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Acque Sotterranee - Italian Journal of Groundwater: Pavia, Lombardy, IT

2012-05 to 2017-06 | Column Editor
Invited position
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Funding (10)

Sounding the Depths of Providence: Mineral (Re)generation, Natural Resources, and Human- Environment Interaction in the Early Modern Period

2021-09 to 2024-09 | Grant
European Commission (Brussels, BE)
GRANT_NUMBER: 101019781
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Sounding the Depths of Providence: Mineral (Re)generation and Human-Environment Interaction in the Early Modern Period

2020-01 to 2020-04 | Grant
University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK, US)
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

43rd INHIGEO Symposium (Mexico City, November 12-21, 2018)

2018-11 to 2018-11 | Grant
International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences (INHIGEO) (Mexico City, MX)
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Through Dark and Mysterious Paths. Early Modern Science and the Search for the Origin of Springs from the 16th to the 18th Century

2014-05 to 2014-07 | Award
Linda Hall Library (Kansas City, MO, US)
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Il corpo del piacere

2012-09 to 2012-09 | Grant
Scuola di Filosofia e Storia della Biologia e della Medicina (SIBIOM) (Nettuno, Lazio, IT)
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Faith and Facts, Experience and Expedience: A Comparison of Protestant and Italian Catholic Perspectives in 17th and 18th-Century Theories of the Earth

2012-05 to 2012-07 | Award
Linda Hall Library (Kansas City, MO, US)
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

The human body between art and science in the Renaissance

2007-09 to 2007-09 | Grant
Biblioteca Leonardiana (Vinci, Toscana, IT)
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Doctoral Seminar, Seminario congiunto SUM-Coordinamento Nazionale Dottorati di Ricerca in Filosofia

2007-04 to 2007-04 | Grant
Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane (Florence, IT)
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Premio Lazzaro Spallanzani, Prima Edizione

2013-04 | Award
Centro Studi Lazzaro Spallanzani (Scandiano, Emilia-Romagna, IT)
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Premio per Tesi di Laurea in Storia della Biologia, Anno 2006

2007-05 | Award
Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL (Roma, Lazio, IT)
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

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Accettare lo stato mutevole dell’arte

Sine ira et studio: Metodo e impegno civile per una razionalità illuministica. Scritti offerti a Dario Generali
2024 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9791222311609
Contributors: Francesco Luzzini
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Going (more) Historical

Storia e Filosofia della Scienza: una nuova alleanza?
2024 | Book chapter
Contributors: Francesco Luzzini
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Perché un maestro è raro

Sine ira et studio: Metodo e impegno civile per una razionalità illuministica. Scritti offerti a Dario Generali
2024-11 | Book chapter
Contributors: Francesco Luzzini
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Sine ira et studio

Mimesis
2024-11 | Book
Contributors: Francesco Luzzini
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Authors and Theories - Comparative table (Update October 2024)

Zenodo
2024-10-08 | Dataset
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13903059
Contributors: Francesco Luzzini
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Authors and Theories - Comparative table

Zenodo
2024-10-01 | Dataset
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13871196
Contributors: Francesco Luzzini
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Authors and Theories - Comparative table

Zenodo
2024-10-01 | Dataset
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8428933
Contributors: Francesco Luzzini
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Exploration of historical mining site - Fornovolasco iron mines (Fabbriche di Vergemoli, Garfagnana, Italy, 07/21/2024)

Zenodo
2024-08-06 | Other
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13236871
Contributors: Francesco Luzzini
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Exploration of historical mining site - Fornovolasco iron mines (Fabbriche di Vergemoli, Garfagnana, Italy, 07/21/2024)

Zenodo
2024-08-06 | Other
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13236872
Contributors: Francesco Luzzini
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Exploration of historical mining site - Mezzano iron mines (San Bartolomeo, Cavargna Valley, Italy, 06/01/2024)

Zenodo
2024-06-06 | Other
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11503528
Contributors: Francesco Luzzini
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Exploration of historical mining site - Mezzano iron mines (San Bartolomeo, Cavargna Valley, Italy, 06/01/2024)

Zenodo
2024-06-06 | Other
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11503529
Contributors: Francesco Luzzini
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Chimico, giammai meccanico

Laboratorio dell’ISPF
2023-11-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.12862/Lab23LZF
Contributors: Francesco Luzzini
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Experiment replication - Plattes 1639 (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA, 6/15/2022)

Zenodo
2023-10-11 | Other
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8432823
Contributors: Francesco Luzzini; Lawrence M. Principe
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Experiment replication - Plattes 1639 (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA, 6/15/2022)

Zenodo
2023-10-11 | Other
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8432824
Contributors: Francesco Luzzini; Lawrence M. Principe
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Experiment replication - Gould 1684 (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA, 6/6/2022)

Zenodo
2023-10-10 | Other
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8428969
Contributors: Francesco Luzzini; Lawrence M. Principe
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Harvesting Underground

Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
2023-09-13 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rsnr.2023.0032
Part of ISSN: 0035-9149
Part of ISSN: 1743-0178
Contributors: Francesco Luzzini
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

L'Ottocento visto dalle Dolomiti

Geologicamente, Magazine di attualità e cultura delle geoscienze
2023-03 | Magazine article
Contributors: Francesco Luzzini
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Quando il mondo scalò il Sublime

Museum of Sciences, Trento
2022 | Book
Contributors: Francesco Luzzini
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Quando si parla d’ambiente (e di scienza, e di storia)

La valle dal cuore di perla. Sulle orme di Giovanni Arduino nelle cave di marmo della Val Posina
2022 | Book chapter
Contributors: Francesco Luzzini
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

The floating price of beauty

Venice and the Anthropocene: An Ecocritical Guide, eds. C. Baldacci, S. Bassi, L. De Capitani and P.D. Omodeo, Venice, Wetlands Books, 2022, pp. 29-32
2022 | Book chapter
Contributors: Francesco Luzzini
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Giovanni Pietro Orelli Barnaba di Locarno, Opera Medica (1711)

Nuove lezioni bellinzonesi
2022-12-09 | Book review
Contributors: Francesco Luzzini
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

(Re-)Shaping a Method: Field Research and Experimental Legacy in Vallisneri’s Primi Itineris Specimen (1705)

Connecting Territories: Exploring People and Nature, 1700-1850
2021-11-17 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1163/9789004412477_004
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Thinking on Earthquakes in Early Modern Europe: Firm Beliefs on Shaky Ground

Early Science and Medicine
2021-11-11 | Book review
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Sounding the depths of providence

Earth Sciences History
2020-11-16 | Journal article
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

[“Through the virtue of waters”: Mineral ores and springs in Vannoccio Biringuccio’s Pirotechnia (1540)]

Acque Sotterranee - Italian Journal of Groundwater
2020-09-30 | Journal article
DOI: 10.7343/as-2020-473
Contributors: Francesco Luzzini
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Distorsioni bibliografiche e storture etiche. Le pubblicazioni di storia della scienza nel contesto italiano

Il Protagora
2020-07-21 | Journal article
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

In Reply to Marco Beretta

Isis
2020-01-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1086/707594
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Quando il Cannaregio si fece dolce

Acque Sotterranee - Italian Journal of Groundwater
2019-05-15 | Journal article
DOI: 10.7343/as-2019-390
Contributors: Francesco Luzzini
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Crossref

Bibliographical Distortions, Distortive Habits

Isis
2019-01-14 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1086/702660
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Scalare il Sublime

“Natura Alpina,” Rivista della Società di Scienze Naturali del Trentino
2018-12 | Journal article
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Marco Leonardi. Aqua curanda est: Le acque e il loro utilizzo nei territori di Friburgo in Brisgovia e Catania dal XIII al XVI secolo

2018-12-16 | Book review
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/702078
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Faelicissime floret

La Garfagnana. Relazioni e conflitti nei secoli con gli Stati e i territori confinanti
2018-07 | Book chapter
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Theory, Practice, and Nature In-between

Edition Open Access - Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
2018-03-20 | Book
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Agordo fu fatale

"Natura Alpina", Rivista della Società di Scienze Naturali del Trentino
2017-12 | Journal article
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Ad venandam veritatem

«Physis», Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
2017-06 | Journal article
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Charon in the Intelvi Valley. The Gorge of Osteno

Acque Sotterranee - Italian Journal of Groundwater
2017-03-31 | Journal article
DOI: 10.7343/as-2017-273
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini
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Dying clothes with black. The springs of Vitriola

Acque Sotterranee - Italian Journal of Groundwater
2016-10-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.7343/as-2016-233
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini
grade
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L’eruzione vesuviana del 1631. Una storia d’età moderna/The Vesuvian Eruption of 1631: an Early Modern History

Aestimatio
2016-09-01 | Book review
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Description, analogy, symbolism, faith. Jesuit science and iconography in the early modern debate on the origin of springs

Acque Sotterranee - Italian Journal of Groundwater
2016-08-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.7343/as-2016-223
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini
grade
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The Edition Open Sources Project. Towards a critical edition of Antonio Vallisneri’s manuscript 'Primi Itineris Specimen' (1705)

Rendiconti Online della Società Geologica Italiana
2016-07 | Conference abstract
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Da Apollo alla Serenissima. Le terme dei Colli Euganei

«Acque Sotterranee», Italian Journal of Groundwater
2016-06 | Journal article
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

L’Itale Terre a vagheggiare inteso

2016-02 | Book chapter
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Anatome. Sezione, scomposizione, raffigurazione del corpo nell’Età Moderna

Società e Storia
2015 | Book review
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Per infera ad astra

2015-12 | Book chapter
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Il mistero e la bellezza. La Fonte Aretusa tra mito, storia e scienza

«Acque Sotterranee», Italian Journal of Groundwater
2015-09 | Journal article
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Il tesoro umile, il tesoro ignorato. I fontanili della Pianura Padana

«Acque Sotterranee», Italian Journal of Groundwater
2015-06 | Journal article
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

Through dark and mysterious paths. Early modern science and the search for the origin of springs from the 16 th to the 18 th centuries

Earth Sciences History
2015-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.17704/1944-6187-34.2.169
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini
grade
Preferred source (of 2)‎

An uncomfortable, yet wonderful journey

2014 | Book chapter
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

L’orrido abisso. O della natura (s)gradevole

Bootleg
2014 | Journal article
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini

I fanghi prodigiosi. Gli studi naturalistici sulle salse emiliane

«Acque Sotterranee», Italian Journal of Groundwater
2014-12 | Journal article
Source: Self-asserted source
Francesco Luzzini
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Peer review (7 reviews for 4 publications/grants)

Review activity for Centaurus. (2)
Review activity for Historical biology. (1)
Review activity for Italian Journal of Geosciences. (3)
Review activity for Rendiconti online Società Geologica Italiana. (1)
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