71 results filtered with: Earthquakes
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A dissertation upon earthquakes, their causes and consequences; comprehending an explanation of the nature and composition 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; a cupious collection of authentick relations digested under those titles, the greater part of which have happened in great britain. Together with a distinct account of, and some remarks upon, the shock of an earthquake, felt in the cities of London and Westminster, on Thursday, February 8, 1749-50.
Date: MDCCL. [1750]- Pictures
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Earthquake damage to fortifications, with three figures in the foreground, Jalal-Kut, Afghanistan. Coloured lithographs by W.L. Walton, c. 1850.
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Earthquake damage to fortifications, Jalal-Kut, Afghanistan. Coloured lithographs by W.L. Walton, c. 1850.
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Saint Alexius (Alexis) intercedes before the Virgin for protection against earthquakes. Etching, 17--.
Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 586574i- Books
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A supplement to the Bishop of London's Letter to the clergy and people of London and Westminster, on occasion of the late earthquakes.
Date: MDCCL. [1750]- Books
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An appendix to the Revd. Mr. Wesley's scripture doctrine concerning predestination, &c. or election conditional.
Date: M.D.CC.LVI. [1756]- Books
Medicinski in socialni pogledi na Ljubjanski potres 1895 : pintarjevi dnevi / Inštitut zgodovino medicine, Znanstveno društvo za zgodovino zdravstvene kulture slovenije, Medikohistorična sekcija Szd.
Pintarjevi dnevi (1995 : Ljubljana, Slovenia)Date: 1995- Pictures
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Earthquake damage to fortifications, seen from the west, Jalal-Kut, Afghanistan. Coloured lithographs by W.L. Walton, c. 1850.
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Learning from megadisasters : lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake / Federica Ranghieri and Mikio Ishiwatari, editors.
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Saint Francis Borgia interceding against earthquakes; cherubim and the Eucharist above. Mezzotint, 17--.
Date: 1700-1799Reference: 563392i- 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 Catania 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]- Digital Images
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Various ammonite fossils illustrating Hooke's discourse of Earthquakes.
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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 October, 1746 ... / translated from the original Spanish [of P. Lozano], by a gentleman who resided many years in those countries [i.e. H. Johnson]. To which is added, a description of Callao and Lima before their destruction; and of the kingdom of Peru in general ... The whole illustrated with a map of the country about Lima, plans of the road and town of Callao, another of Lima; and several cuts of the natives, drawn on the spot by the translator.
Lozano, Pedro, 1697-1752.Date: 1748- Pictures
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A city devastated by an earthquake or a fire. Etching, 17--.
Date: 1700-1799Reference: 43952i- Ephemera
Ad onore di S. Francesco Solano : di minori osservanti, apostolo delle indie, e singolar protettore contro il terremoto : responsorio ... preghiamo.
Date: [between 1726 and 1749?]- Books
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 ... Read at several meetings of the Royal society.
Michell, John, 1724?-1793.Date: [1760]- Books
Io. Baptistae Portae Neapolitani De aeris transmvtationibvs libri IV. In quo opere diligenter pertractatur de ijs, quæ, vel ex aere, vel in aere oriuntur [meteōrologion] multiplices opiniones, qua illustrantur, qua refelluntur : demum variarum causæ mutationum aperiuntur ... / [Giambattista della Porta].
Porta, Giambattista della, approximately 1535-1615.Date: 1610- Books
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The dreadful earthquake and the fatal spotted fever : a funeral sermon and a funeral psalm, on the death of about ten or fifteen thousand of people killed by an earthquake on the twenty-sixth of March 1812, in South America : and on the deaths of an hundred killed in New-Hampshire it is expected in the same year, by the spotted fever / written by Jonathan Plummer.
Plummer, Jonathan, 1761-1819.Date: [1812?]- Books
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A supplement to the Bishop of London's letter to the clergy and people of London and Westminster, On Occasion of the late earthquakes.
Date: MDCCL. [1750]- Books
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Tratado de la conservacion de la salud de los puebles, y consideraciones sobre los terremotos / Traducido por D. Benito Bails.
Sanches, António Nunes Ribeiro, 1699-1783Date: 1781- 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: MDCCL. [1750]- Pictures
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Saint Alexius as protector against earthquakes. Coloured engraving by J. and J. Klauber after J.B Baumgartner.
Baumgartner, Johann Wolfgang, 1712-1761.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 8553i- Pictures
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Saint Emygdius. Engraving by Salvardi.
Date: [1780?]Reference: 4832i- Books
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A letter to the publishers of the Boston gazette, &c. Containing an answer to the Rev. Mr. Prince's letter, inserted in said gazette, on the 26th of January 1756.
Winthrop, John, 1714-1779.Date: 1756]- Books
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Practical reflections on the late earthquakes in Jamaica, England, Sicily, Malta, &c., anno 1692 : with a particular, historical account of those, and divers other earthquakes / by John Shower.
Shower, John, 1657-1715Date: MDCXCIII [1693]