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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, D.D.
Shower, John, 1657-1715.Date: MDCCL. [1750]- Pictures
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Astronomy: various apocalyptic scenes, including a tombstone, an earthquake, and riotous assembly. Coloured lithograph, [c.1826?].
Date: 1826Reference: 46395i- Books
Recovery and restoration : the aftermath of the great East Japan earthquake.
Kamei Shōten.Date: 2012- Books
Physical science in the time of Nero : being a translation of the Quaestiones naturales of Seneca / by John Clarke ... with notes on the treatise by Sir Archibald Geikie.
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.Date: 1910- Pictures
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Zammarò, Calabria: sappers removing bodies from dwellings destroyed in an earthquake. Drawing by A. Bianchini, 1905.
Bianchini, Arturo, active 1898-1905.Date: 13 September 1905Reference: 43956i- Books
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Sacred declarations: or, a letter to the Inhabitants of London, Westminster, and all other parts of Great Britain: On the account of those sins, which provoked God to send and continue, the mortal sickness among the cattle, and to signify, by the late awful earthquakes, that his anger is not turned away. Proposing to their serious Thoughts, Declarations of the Righ[t]eous God in his Holy Word, concerning some Sorts of Persons whom he will punish in the Day of his Visitation for Sin. And likewise, An Account from the same Sacred Scriptures, of a sure Way to Safety, Comfort, and Happiness.
Lobb, Theophilus, 1678-1763.Date: M.DCC.L. [1750]- Pictures
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Messina: ruins of the city after an earthquake. Coloured aquatint, 1809, after L. Mayer.
Mayer, Luigi, active 1776-1792.Date: 1809Reference: 43953i- Pictures
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Saint Francis Solano, holding a cross in a landscape. Engraving, 17--.
Date: 1700-1799Reference: 563478i- Books
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The philosophy of earthquakes, natural and religious. Or An inquiry into their cause, and their purpose. By William Stukeley, M.D. rector of St. George's, Queen-Square: Fellow of the College of Physicians and Royal Society:
Stukeley, William, 1687-1765.Date: MDCCL. [1750]- Pictures
Pizzo, Calabria: shocked and injured people encamped after an earthquake; the town crier announcing the arrival of relief. Gouache by R. Pellegrini, September 1905.
Pellegrini, Riccardo, 1866-Date: Settembre [September] 1905Reference: 43957i- Ephemera
Christus nobiscum : state Sanctus Deus, sanctus fortis, sanctus immortalis miserere nobis : orazione alla B. V. del rosario per esse liberati dal terremoto : Vi ringraziamo, o Maria nostra singolare Avvocata, per averci liberati dalle rovine del flagello del terremoto.
Date: [1779?]- Books
Sketches of Louisville and its environs; including, among a great variety of miscellaneous matter, a Florula Louisvillensis; or, a catalogue of nearly 400 genera and 600 species of plants, that grow in the vicinity of the town, exhibiting their generic, specific, and vulgar English names / By H. M'Murtrie. To which is added an appendix, containing an accurate account of the earthquakes experienced here from the 16th December, 1811, to the 7th February, 1812, extracted principally from the papers of the late J. Brookes, Esq.
McMurtrie, Henry, 1793-1865.Date: 1819- Books
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Histoire des tremblemens de terre arrive's a Lima, capitale du Perou, et autres lieux / avec la description du Perou, et des recherches sur les causes phisiques de tremblemens de terre, par M. Hales, de la Société royale de Londres, & autres phisiciens ... Traduite de l'anglois. Premiere [-seconde] partie. [Anon].
Date: 1752- Books
The magic of reality : how we know what's really true / Richard Dawkins ; illustrated by Dave McKean.
Dawkins, Richard, 1941-Date: 2011- Pictures
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Earthquake damage to fortifications, with waterway, Jalal-Kut, Afghanistan. Coloured lithographs by W.L. Walton, c. 1850.
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Charleston to Savannah railroad, South Carolina: an earth fissure after an earthquake. Wood engraving after a photograph by W.E. Wilson.
Wilson, W. E.Reference: 43958i- Books
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A letter concerning earthquakes / written in the year 1693 by John Flamsteed to a gentleman then residing at Turin in Savoy, on occasion of the destruction of Catanea, and many other cities, towns and villages, in Sicily, in the year 1692.
Flamsteed, John, 1646-1719.Date: 1750- Books
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Essay on the art of war: in which the general principles of all the operations of war in the field are fully explained. The whole collected from the opinions of the best authors.
Date: M.DCC.LXI. [1761]- Books
Cuzco, la ciudad herida : un reportaje gráfico / editor, C. E. Paz-Soldán ; repórter, José Carlos Paz-Soldán R.
Paz-Soldán R., José Carlos.Date: 1951- Books
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An essay on the agitations of the sea, and some other remarkables attending the earthquakes of the year M,DCC,L,V. To which are added, some thoughts on the causes of earthquakes. Written in the year 1756.
Perkins, John, 1698-1781.Date: 1761- Books
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A true and particular history of earthquakes. Containing a relation of that dreadful earthquake which happen'd at Lima and Callao, in Peru, October 28, 1746; publish'd at Lima by Command of the Vice-Roy, and now translated from the Original Spanish; also of that which happen'd in Jamaica in 1692, and of others in different Parts of the World. Accurately describing The dreadful Devastations that have been made by those horrible Convulsions of the Earth; whereby Mountains have been thrown down, or remov'd to great Distances; Cities, with all their Inhabitants, swallow'd up in a Moment; whole Flocks and Herds, with their Keepers, ingulph'd in the tremendous Chasms and Openings of Valleys; and large Forests sunk, and for ever buried in an Instant. Extracted from Authors of the most unexceptionable Credit and Reputation. By Philotheus.
Philotheus.Date: 1748