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An alarm, to Scotland or some observations upon the lightning that was upon the eighteenth of May 1710; the sun being the culer of blood the day before
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Jupiter revealing himself to Semele, pregnant with Dionysus (Bacchus): she shields her eyes, before being killed by lightning. Stipple engraving by J. Heath, 1791, after G.B. Cipriani.
Cipriani, Giovanni Battista, 1727-1785.Date: Nov.r 9: 1791Reference: 2854866i- Books
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Death by electric currents and by lightning : the Goulstonian lectures for 1913 delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London / by A.J. Jex-Blake.
Jex-Blake, Arthur John, 1873-1957.Date: 1913- Pictures
A storm of thunder and lightning, rain, wind and floods threaten an ancient town on the sea-coast; representing conflict. Engraving by S. à Bolswert after Sir P.P. Rubens.
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640.Date: [between 1620? and 1659]Reference: 2491310i- Pictures
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A storm of thunder and lightning, rain, wind and floods threaten an ancient town on the sea-coast; representing conflict. Engraving by S. à Bolswert after Sir P.P. Rubens.
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640.Date: [between 1620? and 1659]Reference: 524682i- Pictures
A monkey-god in the sky sends down thunder and lightning and a giant axe on to a village; fire ascends from below. Watercolour by N. Goullet, ca. 1955.
Goullet, Nancy, active approximately 1954-1957.Date: [1955?]Reference: 2958218iPart of: Adamson Collection- Books
Draw the lightning down : Benjamin Franklin and electrical technology in the Age of Enlightenment / Michael Brian Schiffer, with the assistance of Kacy L. Hollenback and Carrie L. Bell.
Schiffer, Michael B. (Michael Brian), 1947-Date: [2003], ©2003- E-books
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A true and faithful relation of the damage that was done by the thunder and lightning to the parish church and steeple of Crocomb, near Stogomer in the county of Somerset
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A letter from a gentleman in the north, to his friend in Burntisland, concerning the dreadful thunder and lightning, that happened in the shire of Bamff, the 17th instant. ..
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A storm in a wild and rocky landscape: lightning flashes while a man drives a a coach and four hourses through the darkness. Mezzotint by S.W. Reynolds the elder after G. Morland, 1798.
Morland, George, 1763-1804.Date: Feb.y 1798Reference: 2907993i- E-books
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Monody to the memory of Mrs. Mansell, unfortunately killed in a chaise overturned by the horses starting at a flash of lightning, Nov. 3, 1770, in the 75th year of her age
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Jews watch the manifestation of God on Mount Sinai by lightning, smoke and trumpet sounds as he delivers the ten commandments to Moses. Engraving by W. van der Gouwen after G. Hoet.
Hoet, Gerard, 1648-1733.Date: [between 1725 and 1739]Reference: 2496671i- Books
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A selection of papers on the subject of the fixed lightning conductors to the masts of His Majesty's Navy ... Together with much interesting matter on the subject of electricity / [William Pringle Green].
Green, William Pringle, 1785-1846.Date: 1824- Digital Images
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Early types of Electric lightning. Top A. Edison's bamboo carbon filament lamps (1880-1 type); bottom left B. Tablochkov's electric candle (1876); bottom right C. Swan's original Newcastle Carbon Rod Electric lamp (1878).
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Mental prodigies : an enquiry into the faculties of arithmetical, chess, and musical prodigies, famous memorizers, precocious children and the like wih numerous examples of "lightning" calculations and mental magic / by Fred Barlow.
Barlow, Fred, 1888-Date: [1951]- E-books
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A poem on the death of Mr. Abraham Rice, aged 80, and Mr. John Cloyes, aged 41, who were struck with lightning, June 3, 1777. in Framingham. [Four lines from Psalms] By Lydia Learned, of Framingham
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Mount Vesuvius erupting at night, billowing clouds and flashes of lightning, and with many spectators viewing the event across the bay of Naples. Coloured mezzotint with etching by J.M. Mixelle after A. d'Anna.
Anna, Alessandro d'Reference: 42935i- Digital Images
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Haemanthus albiflos Jacq. Amaryllidaceae. Paintbrush plant. Distribution: South Africa. Used as a cough medicine and as a charm to ward off lightning (Pooley, 1998). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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An historical miscellany of the curiosities and rarities in nature and art. Comprising new and entertaining descriptions of the most surprising volcanos, caverns, cataracts, whirlpools, waterfalls, earthquakes, thunder, lightning, and other wonderful and stupendous phenomena of nature.
Date: [1794-1800]- Books
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An account of the death of a person destroyed by lightning in the chapel in Tottenham-Court-Road, and its effects on the building, as observed by Mr. William Henly, Mr. Edward Nairne, and Mr. William Jones / the account written by Mr. Henly.
Henley, William, -1779.Date: 1773- E-books
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The triumph of death, and the uncertainty of life, considered. A universal funeral sermon: being the substance of two very alarming discourses preached on ... the late thunder and lightning, which happened on Sunday, March 22. ... By an eminent Gospel min
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A summary view of the spontaneous electricity of the earth and atmosphere; wherein the causes of lightning and thunder, As well as the Constant Electrification of the Clouds and Vapours, Suspended in the Air, are explained. With some new Experiments and O
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An account of several new and interesting phenomena, discovered in examining the bodies of a man and four horses, killed by lightning, near Dover, in Kent. With remarks on the insufficiency of the popular theory of electricity to explain them. By the Reve
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Youth liable to sudden death; excited seriously to consider thereof, and speedily to prepare therefore. The substance of a discourse, delivered on the day of the funeral of three young men, who were killed by lightning, at Suffield, May 20, 1766. By Israe
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My Mummy made me / Jodie Grieve ; illustrated by Cat Dean.
Grieve, JodieDate: 2017