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GIOVANNI BATTISTA BROCCHI (1772-1826) , See also: Italian mineralogist and geologist, was See also: born at Bassano on the 18th of See also: February 1772
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He studied at the university of See also: Pisa, where his See also: attention was turned to See also: mineralogy and botany
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In 1802 he was appointed professor of botany in the new See also: lyceum of See also: Brescia; but he more especially devoted himself to See also: geological researches in the adjacent districts
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The fruits of these labours appeared in different publications, particularly in his Trattato mineralogico e chemico sulle miniere di Ferro del dipartimento del Mella (18o8)—treatise on the iron mines of Mella
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These researches procured him the office of inspector of mines in the recently established See also: kingdom of See also: Italy, and enabled him to extend his investigations over See also: great See also: part of the country
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In 1811 he produced a valuable essay entitled Memoria mineralogica sulla See also: Valle di Fassa in Tirolo; but his most important See also: work is the Conchiologia fossile subapennina See also: con osservazioni geologiche sugli Apennini, e sul suolo adiacente (2 vols., 4to, Milan, 1814), containing accurate details of the structure of the Apennine range, and an account of the fossils of the Italian See also: Tertiary strata compared with existing See also: species
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These subjects were further illustrated by his geognostic map, and his Catalogo ragionato di una raccolta di rocce, disposto con ordine geografico, per servire alla geognosia dell' Italia (Milan, 1817)
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His work Dello stato fisico del suolo di See also: Roma (182o), with its accompanying map, is likewise noteworthy
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In it he corrected the erroneous views of See also: Breislak, who conceived that See also: Rome occupies the site of a See also: volcano, to which he ascribed the volcanic materials that cover the seven hills
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Brocchi pointed out that these materials were derived either from Mont Albano,
an See also: extinct volcano, 12 M. from the city, or from Mont Cimini, still farther to the See also: north
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Several papers by him, on mineralogical subjects, appeared in the Biblioteca Italiana from 1816 to 1823
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In the latter See also: year Brocchi sailed for See also: Egypt, in See also: order to explore the geology of that country and report on its See also: mineral resources
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Every facility was granted by Mehemet See also: Ali, who in 1825 appointed him one of a commission to examine the See also: district of Sennaar; but Brocchi, unfortunately for science, See also: fell a victim to the See also: climate, and died at See also: Khartum on the 25th of See also: September 1826
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