The Philosophy of Earthquakes, Natural and Religious, Or, An Inquiry Into Their Cause, and Their Purpose, Volum 1,Deler 1-2C. Corbet, 1750 - 93 sider "London was shaken by an earthquake in 1759 and here Stukeley attempts to explain that the event was caused by electricity. Based upon studies made and published by Benjamin Franklin, who is mentioned on page 24, it is the natural conclusion that earthquakes ensue from contact of atmospheric electricity with the earth. References are made to famous earthquakes in history and the resulting damages. Of significance is the overlap between the natural causes of earthquakes and the religious sense of the judgement of God playing a role in these events" -- |
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... eruption , in the leaft ; as muft certainly have been , in so great a struggle of the fuperfice , as affected a circle of fo large a diameter . Were there fuch , we could fcarce hope any other wife , than that they would be too too ...
... eruption , in the leaft ; as muft certainly have been , in so great a struggle of the fuperfice , as affected a circle of fo large a diameter . Were there fuch , we could fcarce hope any other wife , than that they would be too too ...
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... eruptions nor smells . These confiderations I apply only to this little inconfiderable space , of a circle 30 miles diameter ; as with us . But what is that , to the earthquakes we read of in history ? In the the year of our Lord 17 ...
... eruptions nor smells . These confiderations I apply only to this little inconfiderable space , of a circle 30 miles diameter ; as with us . But what is that , to the earthquakes we read of in history ? In the the year of our Lord 17 ...
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... eruptions being the cause fought for ; and , after we have treated the argument in a fuperficial view , we must go a little deeper . If we would confider things like philofophers , let us propofe to ourselves this problem : Where is the ...
... eruptions being the cause fought for ; and , after we have treated the argument in a fuperficial view , we must go a little deeper . If we would confider things like philofophers , let us propofe to ourselves this problem : Where is the ...
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... been printed , which abundantly confirms my fen- timents . The whole drift of it is , to fhow how invalid is the vulgar idea conceiv'd , of earth- earthquakes arifing from fubterraneous vapours and eruptions : That the 18 The Philofophy of.
... been printed , which abundantly confirms my fen- timents . The whole drift of it is , to fhow how invalid is the vulgar idea conceiv'd , of earth- earthquakes arifing from fubterraneous vapours and eruptions : That the 18 The Philofophy of.
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William Stukeley. earthquakes arifing from fubterraneous vapours and eruptions : That the earth itself is not moved to any depth , and that the shock must arife from the atmosphere . The circumftan- ces which he has judiciously collected ...
William Stukeley. earthquakes arifing from fubterraneous vapours and eruptions : That the earth itself is not moved to any depth , and that the shock must arife from the atmosphere . The circumftan- ces which he has judiciously collected ...
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Side 52 - And they shall go into the holes of the rocks and into the caves of the earth for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
Side 50 - Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, and brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
Side 46 - Israel his dominion. The sea saw it, and fled : Jordan was driven back. The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
Side 4 - Lo, these are parts of his ways, but how little a portion is heard of him; and the thunder of his power who can understand ?' ' Behold the heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain him.
Side 50 - And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed.
Side 46 - O thou sea, that thou fleddest : and thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back ? 6 Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams : and ye little hills, like young sheep...
Side 29 - ... know not. Come we to the animal world, we must needs assert, that all motion, voluntary and involuntary, generation, even life itself, all the operations of the vegetable kingdom, and an...
Side 7 - This noise passed rushing by him ; and instantly he saw the ground, a dry and solid spot, wave under him, like the face of the river. The tall trees of the avenue, where he was, nodded their tops very sensibly, and quavered.
Side 45 - The earth fhook, the heavens alfo dropped at the prefence of God : even Sinai itfelf was moved at the prefence of God, the God of Ifrael.
Side 58 - Earth be removed, and tho1 the Mountains be carried into the midft of the Sea ; tho the Waters thereof roar and be troubled ; tho...