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== Biography ==

Arduino was born on 16 October 1714 at [[Caprino Veronese]], a small village in the [[Republic of Venice]], from a poor family of farmers. He tudied at Verona but did not take a degree. At eighteen he began an apprenticeship as a technician in the iron mines in [[Klausen, South Tyrol]], and [[Bolzano]], northern Italy. He became quickly knowledgeable about mineralogy and metallurgy and hiswas technicalsoon abilityable becameto widelyestablish knownhimself as a mining expert.{{sfn|Rodolico|1970|p=233}} As a result of his practical experience he became recognized as a [[mining]] expert, in which capacity he served several Italian administrations. He finally became professor of [[mineralogy]] at the [[University of Padua]] and a member of the [[Accademia nazionale delle scienze]].

Arduino developed possibly the first classification of geological time, based on study of the geology of northern [[Italy]]. He divided the history of the Earth into three periods: Primitive, Secondary, and [[Tertiary period|Tertiary]].

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| year = 1970

| isbn = 0-684-10114-9

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* {{cite book

| last = Vaccari

| first = Ezio

| chapter = The ‘Classification’ of Mountains in Eighteenth Century Italy and the Lithostratigraphic Theory of Giovanni Arduino (1714–1795)

| title = The Origins of Geology in Italy

| editor1 = Gian Battista Vai

| editor2 = W. Glen E. Caldwell

| pages = 155–175

| publisher = [[Geological Society of America]]

| ___location = Boulder, CO

| year = 2006

| isbn = 0813724112

}}

* {{cite journal | title = Two Letters of Signor Giovanni Arduino, Concerning his Natural Observations: First Full English Translation. Part 1| year = 2011 | last1 = Ell | first1 = Theodore | journal = Earth Sciences History | volume = 30 | issue = 2 | pages = 267–286| doi = 10.17704/eshi.30.2.22r632j0x453gj45 | doi-access = free | bibcode = 2011ESHis..30..267E }}