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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
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Conjectures concerning the cause, and observations upon the Phaenomena, of earthquakes; Particularly of That great Earthquake of the first of November 1755, which proved so fatal to the City of Lisbon, and whose Effects were felt as far as Africa, and more or less throughout almost all Europe. By the Reverend John Michell, M. A. Fellow of Queen's-College, Cambridge.
Michell, John, 1724?-1793.Date: Printed in the Year M.DCC.LX. [1760]
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Some considerations on the causes of earthquakes. Which were read before the Royal Society, April 5, 1750. By Stephen Hales, D.D, F.R.S.
Hales, Stephen, 1677-1761.Date: 1750
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A letter to the inhabitants of Manchester, Macclesfield, and the adjacent parts, on occasion of the late earthquake in those places. By the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Chester.
Porteus, Beilby, 1731-1809.Date: [1777]
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A philosophical discourse upon earthquakes, their causes and consequences; comprehending an explanation of the nature of subterraneous vapours, their amazing force, and the manner in which they operate; the Sentiments on this Head of the most learned Philosophers ancient and modern; the different Kinds of Earthquakes, distinguished by their Effects; and a copious Collection of authentic Relations digested under those Titles. To which is prefixed, a preliminary dissertation, in which is attempted a rational explanation of the rise, progress, and extent of the late dreadful earthquake, so sensibly felt through great Part of Europe, on Saturday, November 1, 1755.
Montagu, Edward Wortley, 1713-1776.Date: 1755

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Earthquakes - Early works to 1800

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Some considerations on the causes of earthquakes. Which were read before the Royal Society, April 5, 1750. By Stephen Hales, D.D, F.R.S.

A letter to the inhabitants of Manchester, Macclesfield, and the adjacent parts, on occasion of the late earthquake in those places. By the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Chester.