[The biological time].
Fabio Colonna's De glossopetris dissertatio is part of the biological time. Announces the dawn of a paleontology that understood nature as a closed and orderly system ruled by a perfect, natural codex. The Neapolitan intellectual climate, characteristic of the transit from XVIIth to XVIIIth century, converge in a process of institutionalization of science.
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