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The contribution of the Sicilian naturalists to the knowledge of circumsicilian islands during the 19th century

2022; Edizioni Danaus, Palermo; Volume: 13; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.31396/biodiv.jour.2022.13.1.187.280

2039-0408

Ignazio Sparacio,

Plant Diversity and Evolution

The 19th was a century of great cultural and scientific innovation.Sicily, despite the numerous political and social problems, was not found unprepared to accept and apply all the new demands that were spread from Europe throughout the world.The Sicilian scientific environment, in particular, had a great development and achieved excellent results in all sectors, weakening the original thrust, until it almost completely disappeared, in the early 20th century.In this work only one aspect of this cultural commitment is represented: the contribution of Sicilian naturalists to the study of the circumsicilian islands.Pietro Calcara, already in the early 19th century, began a preliminary and systematic study of all the circumsicilian islands.Other authors devoted themselves only to some topics that interested these islands: Carlo Gemmellaro, for example, who studied the phenomena related to the appearance of the Ferdinandea island and, in other fields of naturalistic research,