Luigi Palmieri, Italian geophysicist, 1893. Creator: Unknown.

Luigi Palmieri, Italian geophysicist, 1893. Creator: Unknown.

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Luigi Palmieri, Italian geophysicist, 1893. Palmieri (1807-1896) was director of the Vesuvius Observatory which monitored the activity of the volcano. In 1855 he invented a seismograph. From Les Nouvelles Conquetes de la Science by Louis Figuier. (Paris, 1883).

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