Leonardo da Vinci's Geology

1 May, 5pm, online via Zoom (register here)

Leonardo's first dated drawing is a geological map of the Arno valley, and his remarkable notebooks include tantalising writings on geological phenomena, such as the layering of rocks and the origins of marine fossils. These will be the focus of a public conversation with Ivano Dal Prete (Yale) and Lucia Tantardini (Cambridge), convened by Richard Oosterhoff (Edinburgh). Dal Prete is a historian of science who has recently published On the Edge of Eternity: The Antiquity of the Earth in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (2023); Tantardini is an art historian and specialist in the works of Leonardo.

This conversation is a collaboration between the Leonardo da Vinci Society and the research group for History of Science, Medicine & Technology at the University of Edinburgh.