On Thursday 16 May 2019, at 17.30 pm at the Municipal Library of Valle Aurelia (Rome, Viale di Valle Aurelia 129) a seminar entitled “From frogs to Early Warning. Two thousand years of inventions for the study of the Earth and defense against earthquakes and tsunamis” curated by Alessandro Amato, researcher at the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV).
The appointment is part of "Rome: city of intelligence", the series of initiatives organized following the XIV edition of the National Geographic Science Festival, held at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome last April. INGV participated in the Festival with conferences and workshops aimed at students and visitors to lead them, 500 years after the death of the genius Leonardo Da Vinci, to discover this year's theme, the invention.
Tomorrow's seminar will resume the fil rouge of invention and discovery by retracing, with a two-thousand-year journey, the theories on earthquakes, the attempts to predict them and the tools devised by man to study them and to defend themselves.
Starting from the first seismoscope invented in China in the second century AD, we will arrive at the current Early Warning systems for earthquakes and tsunamis, retracing the lives and works of scientists, philosophers and "charlatans" who have contributed, in a or in the other, to scientific and technological advances and the reduction of the risk associated with natural events.
Click here for the complete program of “Rome: city of intelligence. Science Festival 2019”
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