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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]- Pictures
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Astronomy: various apocalyptic scenes, including gout, lightning, war, and riotous assembly. Coloured lithograph, [c.1836?].
Reference: 46286i- Pictures
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Astronomy: various apocalyptic scenes, including a comet, lightning, and French soldiers. Coloured lithograph, [c.1847?].
Date: 1847Reference: 46298i- Pictures
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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- Pictures
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A man discovering the physicist Richmann after he has been killed by a bolt of lightning. Wood engraving by O. Jahyer and L. Hotelin after P. Valentin.
Valentin, P. (Illustrator)Reference: 22128i- Pictures
Decorated writing paper with a design of gods of thunder and lightning. Colour woodcut, 1890s.
Date: [between 1890 and 1899]Reference: 37831i- Books
The description of a new lightning conductor ; and observations on the phenomena of the thunder storm / [John Murray].
Murray, John, 1786?-1851Date: 1833- 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- Books
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An account of a very extraordinary effect of lightning on a bullock : at Swanborow, in the parish of Iford near Lewes, in the county of Sussex / in sundry letters from Mr. James Lambert ... and one from William Green ... to William Henly. Read at the Royal Society, May 1, 1776.
Lambert, James, 1725-1788.Date: 1776- Pictures
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- Pictures
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Vulcan in his forge with Jupiter throwing bolts of lightning, Venus in the sky above, symbolising the element fire. Etching by F. Bartolozzi, 1796, after F. Albani.
Albani, Francesco, 1578-1660.Date: 2 Jan[uar]y 1797Reference: 23947i- Pictures
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Vulcan in his forge with Jupiter throwing bolts of lightning, Venus in the sky above: symbolising the element fire. Engraving by E. Baudet, 1695, after F. Albani.
Albani, Francesco, 1578-1660.Date: 1695Reference: 23618i- Books
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God's terrible doings are to be observed. A sermon preach'd at Needham, and occasion'd by the sudden and awful death of Mr. Thomas Gardner, Jun. who was kill'd by lightning on Friday April 4. 1746. By Jonathan Townsend, M.A. and Pastor of the church there. Now publish'd at the desire of many of the hearers. [Six lines from Mark]
Townsend, Jonathan, 1698-1762.Date: 1746- Books
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All things come alike to all: a sermon, on Eccles. IX. 1, 2 and 3 verses. Occasioned by a person's being struck by the lightning of thunder. Preached at Philadelphia, July the 28th, 1745. By Gilbert Tennent, A.M. Minister of the Gospel in Philadelphia. [Five lines of Scripture texts]
Tennent, Gilbert, 1703-1764.Date: 1745- Pictures
The flood: people clamber for safety as rain pours down and lightning strikes the earth. Engraving by W. van der Gouwen after G. Hoet.
Hoet, Gerard, 1648-1733.Date: [between 1725 and 1739]Reference: 2493580i- Books
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On a prolonged first stage of Tabes dorsalis : amaurosis, lightning pains, recurrent herps; no ataxia; absence of patella tenson reflex / by Thomas Buzzard.
Buzzard, Thomas.Date: [1878?]- Books
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The curious traveller. Being A Choice Collection of very remarkable Histo-Tories, Voyages, Travels, &c. Digested into Familiar Letters and Conversations. Containing among many other Particulars, the following: The Spanish Cruelties in the West-Indies. A curious Account of the Snow Alps. A Tragical Account relating to a Shipwicck. Of the Troubles and Conspiracies at the Russian Court. Of the Burning Mountain. Of the Common-Wealth of Bees. An Account of Crocodiles. Curiosities discover'd at Hanover. An Account of a terrible Earth-Quake. The Siege of Prom. Mihometans in the Indies. A Description of the City of Hamburgh. The White Island. St. Mark at Venice. Bull-Baiting at Venice. Fortune-Telling ridiculed. A curious Monument in Persia. An Hospital for Monkeys. A mock Sea Fight on the River Thames. The Ruins of Persepolis. The History of Snow. Observations on the Art of Painting. An Insurrection at Muscow. A Widow burns herself for the Death of her Husband. A Stratagem of a Negro at Fida. Maurice Island. An Account of Thunder and Lightning. The Rasbut Robbers, &c. Adorn'd with Cuts.
Date: MDCCXLII. [1742]- Books
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An account of a very extraordinary effect of lightning on a bullock, at Swanborow, in the Parish of Iford near Lewes, in the County of Sussex. In sundry letters from Mr. James Lambert, Landscape-Painter at Lewes; and one from William Green, Esq. at Lewes; to William Henly, F.R.S. Read at the Royal Society, May 1, 1776.
Lambert, James, 1725-1788.Date: Printed in the Year MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
Directions for insuring personal safety during storms of thunder and lightning, and for the right application of conductors to houses and other buildings / [John Leigh].
Leigh, John, Esq., Jnr.Date: [1835?]- 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- 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- Books
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A poem, in blank verse, on a violent storm, attended with thunder and lightning. To which is added, A poem on death; to Palmera. By Edward Stephens.
Stephens, Edward, active 1747-1765.Date: 1751- Books
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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.
Date: 1710]- 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