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Gulliver revived: containing singular travels, campaigns, voyages, and adventures in Russia, the Caspian Sea, Iceland, Turkey, Egypt, Gibraltar, up the Mediterranean, on the Atlantic Ocean, and through the centre of Mount Etna into the South Sea: Also An Account of a Voyage into the Moon and Dog-Star, with many extraordinary Particulars, relative to the Cooking Animal in those Planets, which are here called the Human Species. By Baron Munchausen.
Date: M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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Recherches et observations naturelles de Monsieur Boccone ... touchant le corail, la pierre etoilée, les pierres de figure de coquilles, la corne d'ammon, l'astroïte undulatus, les dents de poissons pétrifiées, les herissons alterez, l'embrasement du mont Etna, la sangsüe du Xiphias, l'alcyonium stupposum, le bezoar mineral & les plantes qu'on trouve dans la Sicile, avec quelques reflexions sur la vegetation des plantes :bexaminées à diverses fois dans l'Assemblée de messieurs de Société Royale de Londres, & conferences dans les de Monsieur l'Abbe Bourdelot à Paris / [Paolo Boccone].
Boccone, Paolo, 1633-1704.Date: 1674- Ephemera
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Phenalgin : an ideal antipyretic, analgesic and expectorant.
Date: [between 1920 and 1929?]- Digital Images
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Septieme Lettre a Monsieur L'abbe Bourdelot, 1674
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Septieme Lettre a Monsieur L'abbe Bourdelot, 1674
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Septieme Lettre a Monsieur L'abbe Bourdelot, 1674
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Historia et meteorologia incendii Artnaei anni 1669 / Ioan. Alphonsi Borelli ; accessit responsio ad censuras Rev. P. Honorati Fabri contra librum auctoris De vi percussionis.
Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso, 1608-1679.Date: 1670- Books
A true and exact relation of the late prodigious earthquake and eruption of Mount Aetna, or Monte-Gibello; as it came in a letter written to His Majesty from Naples / by the Right Honorable the Earle of Winchilsea, His Majesties late ambassador at Constantinople, who in his return from thence, visiting Catania in the island of Sicily, was an ey-witness of that dreadful spectacle. Together with a more particular narrative of the same, as it is collected out of several relations sent from Catania. Published by authority.
Winchilsea, Heneage Finch, Earl of, -1689.Date: 1669- 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- Books
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The vulcano's: or, burning and fire-vomiting mountains, famous in the world: with their remarkables. Collected for the most part out of Kircher's Subterraneous world. And expos'd to more general view in English, upon the relation of the late wonderful and prodigious eruptions of AEtna. Thereby to occasion greater admirations of the wonders of nature (and of the God of nature) in the mighty element of fire ... / [Athanasius Kircher].
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680.Date: 1669- Books
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An exact relation of the famous earthquake and eruption of Mount ¡tna, or Mont-Gibello, A.D. 1669, Being one of the greatest recorded in history; now reprinted from a scarce pamphlet, containing a letter from the Earl of Winchelsea to His Majesty King Charles the second; together with a more particular narrative, collected from several other authentic materials. To which also is now added a genuine letter, written to a late noble peer, purposing to describe the last great eruption, as well as a journey to the very summit of Mount ¡tna, in the year 1766.
Winchilsea, Heneage Finch, Earl of, -1689.Date: M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]- Books
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The general history of earthquakes: Being An Account of the most Remarkable and Tremendous Earthquakes that have happened in divers Parts of the World, from the Creation to this Time; As they are recorded by Sacred and Common Authors; And particularly those lately in Naples, Smyrna, Jamaica and Sicily. With a Description of the famous burning Mount, Aetna, in that Island; And the Relation of the several dreadful Conflagrations and Fiery Irruptions thereof for many Ages. Likewise the Natural and Material Causes of Earthquakes, with the usual Signs and Prognosticks of their Approach; And the Consequences and Effects that have followed several of them. By R. B.
R. B., approximately 1632-approximately 1725.Date: M.DCC.XXXIV. [1734]- Pictures
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An eruption of Mount Vesuvius at night; people watching the eruption in the foreground. Coloured aquatint by F. Weber after A. d'Anna.
Anna, Alessandro d', active approximately 1765.Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 575698i- Pictures
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The forge of Vulcan: he sits by the forge as his assistants work on iron at the anvil. Engraving by Georges Reverdy.
Reverdy, Georges, active 16th century.Date: 1500-1599Reference: 29880i- Pictures
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Vitrifications and other volcanic productions. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.
Fabris, Pietro, active 1756-1784.Date: [1776]Reference: 43729i- Pictures
The basaltic island of Castellamare. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.
Fabris, Pietro, active 1756-1784.Date: [1776]Reference: 43746i- Books
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Specification of Joseph Burdekin Jackson and William Bowler : furnaces or fire-places.
Jackson, Joseph Burdekin.Date: 1855- Pictures
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Saint Peter sending Saint Martianus to Syracuse. Engraving.
Reference: 6557i- Archives and manuscripts
Volume 4: Ships (E-J)
Date: 1780-1805Reference: MS.3670Part of: Nelson, Viscount Horatio (1758-1805)- Archives and manuscripts
M0000077: Lava bed, Mascali, Sicily
Date: 25 June 1929Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/2/75Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
M0000079: Lava bed, Mascali, Sicily
Date: 25 June 1929Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/2/77Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
M0000080: Lava still smoking, Mascali, Sicily
Date: 25 June 1929Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/2/78Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
M0000081: The lava flow and remnants of the town of Mascali, Sicily
Date: 25 June 1929Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/2/79Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
M0000078: Guide on lava bed, Mascali, Sicily
Date: 25 June 1929Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/2/76Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Pictures
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Empedocles. Line engraving after C. Vignon.
Vignon, Claude, 1593-1670.Reference: 2732i