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La nuova frontiera del viaggio: l’esplorazione del cosmo

  • Marco Romoli

The human drive for knowledge, together with the technology development, often accelerated by warfare, has opened new frontiers to exploration. Once the exploration of the Earth globe came to an end with the conquest of the geographical poles, of the high mountains, and the ocean deeps, mankind developed new attention to Space and the exploration of the Universe, not only by means of ground based telescopes, but with rockets, unmanned and manned satellites and spacecrafts. In the mid of XX century, the drivers are similar to those that pushed the Nations of XV century to discover the world: geopolitics strategies, hunger for resources and knowledge, conquer and adventure. We are just at the beginning. This is a brief overview of the Space Age history and of the present and future development.

  • Keywords:
  • voyage,
  • Ferdinand Magellan,
  • space exploration,
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Marco Romoli

University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-9921-1198

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Chapter Information

Chapter Title

La nuova frontiera del viaggio: l’esplorazione del cosmo

Authors

Marco Romoli

Language

Italian

DOI

10.36253/978-88-5518-467-0.04

Peer Reviewed

Publication Year

2021

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© 2021 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

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CC0 1.0

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Book Title

Nel segno di Magellano tra terra e cielo

Book Subtitle

Il viaggio nelle arti umanistiche e scientifiche di lingua portoghese e di altre culture europee in un’ottica interculturale

Editors

Michela Graziani, Lapo Casetti, Salomé Vuelta García

Peer Reviewed

Number of Pages

492

Publication Year

2021

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© 2021 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

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CC0 1.0

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Firenze University Press

DOI

10.36253/978-88-5518-467-0

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978-88-5518-466-3

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978-88-5518-467-0

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Studi e saggi

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2704-6478

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2704-5919

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