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Natural disasters: lightning, earthquake, and a tornado destroying buildings. Engraving.
Date: [between 1600 and 1699]Reference: 47026i- Books
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La nature dans la formation du tonnerre, et la reproduction des êtres vivans, pour servir d'introduction aux vrais principes de l'argiculture / Par M. l'Abbé Poncelet.
Poncelet, Polycarpe, approximately 1720-approximately 1780.Date: 1766- Pictures
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A ship caught in a storm; three people in a lifeboat in the foreground. Coloured aquatint, ca. 1820.
Date: 1820Reference: 573792i- Pictures
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The plague of hail and thunder. Coloured etching.
Date: [1775/1779]Reference: 6059i- Books
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An essay on the cause of lightning, and the manner by which the thunder-clouds become possessed of their electricity, Deduced From Known Facts And Properties Of That Matter. To which are added, Plain directions for constructing and erecting safe conductors.
Simmons, John, active 1775.Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]