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A lecture on earthquakes; read in the chapel of Harvard-College in Cambridge, N.E. November 26th 1755. On occasion of the great earthquake which shook New-England the week before. By John Winthrop, Esq; Hollisian Professor of the Mathematics and Philosophy at Cambridge. Published by the general desire of that society. [Five lines from Derham]
Winthrop, John, 1714-1779.Date: 1755- Books
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A chronological and historical account of the most memorable earthquakes that have happened in the world, from the beginning of the Christian Period. To the present year 1750 : With an appendix, containing a distinct series of those that have been felt in England ... / By a gentleman of the University of Cambridge [i.e. Z. Grey].
Grey, Zachary, 1688-1766.Date: 1750- Books
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The philosophy of earthquakes, natural and religious, Or An inquiry into their cause, and their purpose. ... / By William Stukeley.
Stukeley, William, 1687-1765.Date: 1756- Books
Seneca e le scienze naturali / a cura di Marco Beretta, Francesco Citti, Lucia Pasetti.
Date: 2012- Pictures
Natural disasters: lightning, earthquake, and a tornado destroying buildings. Engraving.
Date: [between 1600 and 1699]Reference: 47026i- Books
Restless genius : Robert Hooke and his earthly thoughts / Ellen Tan Drake.
Drake, Ellen T.Date: 1996- Books
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The history and philosophy of earthquakes from the remotest to the present times: collected from the best writers on the subject. With a particular account of the phaenomena of the great one of November 1st 1755, in various parts of the globe / By a Member of the Royal Academy of Berlin [i.e. John Bevis].
Date: 1757- Ephemera
Orazione al glorioso Sant'Emidio : vescovo, e martire.
Date: 1787- Pictures
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Monteleone di Calabria: an encampment made by people whose dwellings have been destroyed in an earthquake. Drawing by A. Bianchini, 1905.
Bianchini, Arturo, active 1905.Date: 13 September 1905Reference: 43955i- Books
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Some considerations on the causes of earthquakes. Which were read before the Royal Society, April 5, 1750 / By Stephen Hales.
Hales, Stephen, 1677-1761.Date: 1750- Books
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The philosophy of earthquakes, natural and religious, or, an inquiry into their cause, and their purpose / By William Stukeley.
Stukeley, William, 1687-1765.Date: 1750- Books
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Practical reflections on the earthquakes that have happened in Europe and America but chiefly in the islands of Jamaica, England, Sicily, Malta, &c. With a particular and historical account of them, and divers other earthquakes / by John Shower.
Shower, John, 1657-1715.Date: 1750- Books
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The philosophy of earthquakes, natural and religious. Part II. By William Stukeley, M.D. rector of St. George's, Queen-Square: fellow of the College of Physicians and Royal Society:
Stukeley, William, 1687-1765.Date: MDCCL. [1750]- Books
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A sermon on the late earthquakes, more particularly that at Lisbon; part whereof was preached December 31. 1755, and the other part February 4. 1756, in the parish church of St. Andrew, Plymouth: wherein the subject is considered both in a philosophical and religious light. By Thomas Alcock, M.A. M. A. Of Braze-Nose College, Oxford.
Alcock, Thomas, 1709-1798.Date: MDCCLVI. [1756]- Books
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An historical account of earthquakes, extracted from the most authentick historians. Containing a minute and very instructive relation of those dreadful ones that happened at Port-Royal in Jamaica, and at Calania in Sicily, in 1692, and at Lima and Calao, in 1746. A particular description of the late fatal one at Lisbon, from the relation of Captain Richard Overton, of Liverpool (who was actually in the city when it happened, and very providentially escaped being buried in the ruins) and others. Mr. Archibald Bowyer's account of trying, condemning, and punishing two prisoners in the Court of Inquisition, and a faithful narrative of his escape from thence; written by himself, is occasionally inserted. With a description of the Auto de Fe, which the Portuguese were commemorating at the time, the earthquake happened. And a prefatory dissertation on the causes of earthquakes, with the method of making an artificial one. With many other particulars. And a sermon preached at Weverham, in Cheshire, on Friday the 6th of February last. By the Rev. Mr. Tho. Hunter, vicar of Weverham.
Hunter, Thomas, 1712-1777.Date: MDCCLVI. [1756]- Pictures
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Earthquake damage to fortifications, with snow-covered mountains, Jalal-Kut, Afghanistan. Coloured lithographs by W.L. Walton, c. 1850.
Reference: 30182i- Books
Eighteenth-century earthquake theories : a case-history investigation into the character of the study of the earth in the enlightenment / by John Gates Taylor, Jr.
Taylor, John G.Date: 1975- Books
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Three sermons on different subjects and occasions. The first, on the pleasure which affects the hearts of virtuous men, at the view of publick happiness; particularly, when they meet in the house of God, to give thanks for his favours. The second, on the vanity of prayer and fasting; when these are not joined with reformation of manners. The last, on the terribleness, and the moral cause of earthquakes; delivered at Leominster, by John Rogers, A.M. and Pastor of the church there. [Eight lines of quotations]
Rogers, John, 1712-1789.Date: M,DCC,LVI. [1756]- Pictures
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Earthquake damage to fortifications, with trees, Jalal-Kut, Afghanistan. Coloured lithographs by W.L. Walton, c. 1850.
Reference: 30119i- Books
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Memoire sur les tremblemens de terre, : qui a remporte' le prix de physique, au jugement de l'Académie des sciences, belles-lettres & arts de Rouen, le 3 août 1757. / par M. Isnard.
Isnard, Monsieur.Date: M.DCC.LVIII- Books
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A True and particular relation of the dreadful earthquake, which happen'd at Lima, the capital of Peru, and the neighbouring port of Callao, on the 28th of October, 1746. With an account likewise of every thing material that passed there afterwards to the end of November following. Published at Lima by command of the viceroy, and translated from the original Spanish, by a gentleman who resided many years in those countries.
Date: 1749- Books
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An appeal, to the Reverend John and Charles Wesley; to all the preachers who act in connection with them; and to every member of their respective societies in England, Scotland, Ireland, and America. ...
Date: 1790?]- Books
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The philosophy of earthquakes, natural and religious. Part III. By William Stukeley, M. D. Rector of St. George's, Queen-Square; Fellow of the College of Physicians, and of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies.
Stukeley, William, 1687-1765.Date: M.DCC.LVI. [1756]- Books
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A farther account of memorable earthquakes, to the present year 1756. Wherein is inserted a short and faithful relation of the late dreadful calamity at Lisbon. Together with An Abstract of Father Goree's Narrative of the Rise of a new Island in the Bay of Santorini in the Archipelago, in the Year 1707. Being A Continuation of a Tract entitled, A Chronological and Historical Account of the most memorable Earthquakes that have happened in the World, from the beginning of the Christian Period to the Year 1750. To which is added, by way of Appendix, A particular Account of an Auto de Fe, or Act of Faith, at Lisbon; taken from an Author of good Credit, who was himself an Eye-Witness thereof. By a gentleman of the university of Cambridge.
Grey, Zachary, 1688-1766.Date: MDCCLVI. [1756]- Books
The general history of earthquakes. Being an account of the most remarkable and tremondous earthquakes that have in divers parts of the world, from the Creation to this time ... and particularly those lately in Naples, Smyrna, Jamaica and Sicily. With a description of the famous burning Mount Aetna, in that island ... Likewise the natural and material causes of earthquakes ... / By R.B. [i.e. Richard Burton, pseud].
R. B., approximately 1632-approximately 1725.Date: 1734