The History and Philosophy of Earthquakes: Accompanied by John Michell's 'Conjectures Concerning the Cause, and Observations upon the Phænomena of Earthquakes'

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The History and Philosophy of Earthquakes

Accompanied by John Michell's 'Conjectures Concerning the Cause, and Observations upon the Phænomena of Earthquakes'

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Edited by Member of the Royal Academy of Berlin

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: October 2014
Print publication year:: 2013
First published in:: 1757
Online ISBN:: 9781139583268
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139583268

Subjects:: Earth and Environmental Sciences, History of Science, Structural Geology, Tectonics and Geodynamics, Earth and Environmental Science: General Interest, General Science
Series:: Cambridge Library Collection - Earth Science

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The aftershocks of the devastating Lisbon earthquake of 1755 were not only physical: the scientific investigations undertaken in its wake formed the basis of the science of seismology. Published in 1757, the present work is, in the words of its presumed editor, John Bevis (1695–1771), 'a repertory of all that has been written of earthquakes and their causes', and includes several recent papers published by the Royal Society. At the time, scientists suggested subterranean fires or electrical shocks in the atmosphere as possible causes of earthquakes. This reissue also incorporates a brief 1760 work by John Michell (1724/5–93), which uses Bevis' collection as a source and suggests that earthquakes were caused by seismic waves through the earth: it was one of the first to propose that tsunamis were the result of undersea earthquakes. Both these works rank as important steps in the developing understanding of one of nature's most destructive phenomena.

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The History and Philosophy of Earthquakes

Accompanied by John Michell's 'Conjectures Concerning the Cause, and Observations upon the Phænomena of Earthquakes'

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Preface
pp vii-vii

Contents
pp viii-viii

I - A Methodical Account of Earthquakes
pp 1-58

II - Of the Nature of Earthquakes
pp 59-67

III - Discourses concerning Earthquakes
pp 68-174

IV - Earthquakes caused by some accidental Obstruction of a continual subterranean Heat
pp 175-182

V - A Physico-chymical Explanation of subterraneous Fires, Earthquakes, &c
pp 183-192

VI - Of the Volcanos and Earthquakes in Peru
pp 193-208

VII - The Natural History of Volcanos and Earthquakes
pp 209-239

VIII - A Summary of the Causes of the Alterations which have happened to the Face of the Earth
pp 240-242

IX - Some Considerations on the Causes of Earthquakes
pp 243-252

X - The Philosophy of Earthquakes
pp 253-279

Phœnomena of the Great Earthquake of November 1, 1755, in various Parts of the Globe
pp 280-333

The vast Extent of the fame
pp 333-334

ERRATA
pp 334-334

INDEX
pp 335-352

CONJECTURES CONCERNING THE CAUSE, AND OBSERVATIONS UPON THE PHÆNOMENA of EARTHQUAKES
pp 353-354

INTRODUCTION
pp 355-423

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