Giovanni Arduino (geologist)

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Giovanni Arduino (Caprino Veronese, October 16, 1714 – Venice, March 21, 1795) was an Italian geologist who is known as the "Father of Italian Geology."

Arduino was a mining specialist who developed possibly the first classification of geological time, based on study of the geology of northern Italy. In 1735, he divided the history of the Earth into four periods: Primitive, Secondary, Tertiary and Volcanic,or Quaternary.

[edit] Further reading

• Rodolico, Francesco. (1970). "Giovanni Arduino". Dictionary of Scientific Biography 1: 233-234. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.