Giovanni Arduino

Not to be confused with the French scholar Jean Hardouin, who is called Giovanni Arduino in Italian.
Giovanni Arduino
Medal of Giovanni Arduino. Panteon Veneto, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti
Born(1714-10-16)16 October 1714
Caprino Veronese, Veneto, Italy
Died21 March 1795(1795-03-21) (aged 80)
Venice, Republic of Venice
Known forStratigraphy
Scientific career
FieldsGeology
InstitutionsUniversity of Padua
Notes
He is the brother of Pietro Arduino.

Giovanni Arduino (16 October 1714 – 21 March 1795) was an Italian geologist who is known as the "Father of Italian Geology". Arduino proposed the division of the earth's crust into four general and successive orders: Primary, Secondary, Tertiary and Quaternary, a classification regarded as the starting point for modern stratigraphy.

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