by Anita McConnell L.F. Marsigli’s Histoire Physique de la Mer resumed and extended his earlier work and was finalised around 1710. He sent it to the Académie des sciences in Paris who read a few extracts then returned the manuscript to him. It lay untouched until in 1721  Marsigli travelled to London and Holland where… Read More Luigi Ferdindo Marsigli (1658–1730)