A chronological and historical account of the most memorable earthquakes that have happened in the world, from the beginning of the Christian Period. To the present year 1750 : With an appendix, containing a distinct series of those that have been felt in England ... / By a gentleman of the University of Cambridge [i.e. Z. Grey].

  • Grey, Zachary, 1688-1766.
Date:
1750
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Credit: A chronological and historical account of the most memorable earthquakes that have happened in the world, from the beginning of the Christian Period. To the present year 1750 : With an appendix, containing a distinct series of those that have been felt in England ... / By a gentleman of the University of Cambridge [i.e. Z. Grey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the other from Agricola in 1360. Andu Quercetan gives another remarkable inftance of an Earthquake which happen’d in France the fir ft of March 1584, which he feems to afcribe to the conjunction of thofe two Planets Saturn and Jupiter; and which was attended not long after by both a Famine, and a Pcjiilence. And if God for our Sins fhould think fit to fend fo fevere a Judgement amongft us, what human precaution, what prefervation of art could be fufficient to proteft us againft fo cruel a Malady ? w Since the moft learned Phyficians are puzzled to trace the original Caufe of a Peftilential Contagion, or to account for its fpeedy convey¬ ance and propagation; Methinks, it fhould teach us all to mingle the Fear of God with our Philo- fophy, and to dread it as one of his fevered; Judge¬ ments. In fuch Calamities the righteous are too Occurrit in prefentia memoria illius conjun&ionis duorum fu- premorum Planetarum, Saturni videlicet Sc Jowls, fabtae 1584 prima Martii, idque die Dominica, hora duodecima ; quam continue) excepit Terror motus. -Fecit hujus Terrs motus (in Gallia) mentionem Leowicius, Lib. 4. Magni rr.ei Speculi Mundani. Paucis verb poll annis, tanta pariter Fames ac Pejiis in diverfis climatibus ac regionibus mortales invaferunt, ut nihil fub Sole miferabilius confpici potuerit. FJuercetani Pejiis Alexiac. p. 122. w Quanta enim mentis confternatione videas, Pelle domum feu fa- miliam aliquam infellante, Parvulos, quorum fpes omnis a Majori- bus dependet, defer!; Filios a Parentibus, Parentes a Filiis, Uxores a Maritis, & Maritos ab Uxoribus: Idque tanta animorum exolu- tionc, (cui propellendae ne ipfa quidem ars medica a:quivalens ad- huc renerit remedium) ut vel ex ipforum Medicorum genere, nulli aut fane paucilfimi reperiantur, qui non hujus Magerte inexorabi- lem tvrannidem remis velifque omnibus, ut ainnt, fugiant; qua; frpe ex Oriente in Occidentem, e Septentrione in Meridiem mira fe recipit, & omnes circum regiones populatur velocitate. Qua:que clanculum, dum nos maxime liberos abejus incurfionibus credimus, a tergo adoriens, fine diferimine non modo aetate prove&iores, fed & juniores viros Sc fteminas abripit : ac non folum populofilfimas civitatcs, verum & integra regna, fa?pe momento 'in folitudines ac deferta tranfmutat. ^uercetaui Pejiis Alcxiac. p. 103, 104. b 2