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The 1755 Lisbon disaster, the earthquake that shook Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2006

JEAN-PAUL POIRIER
JEAN-PAUL POIRIER
Affiliation:
18, Place des Vosges, Paris 75004, France. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

The Lisbon earthquake is famous for its central role in the 18th century ‘quarrel of Optimism’. The accounts of the disaster by some witnesses are presented and the contributions that the earthquake inspired to many European authors, less well-known than Voltaire, in the domains of science, literature, religion and philosophy, are summarily reviewed. The paper emphasizes the repercussions the earthquake had in Germany, quite remote from the disaster area, but intellectually much alive, at the time of Frederic II.

Type
Lisbon Earthquake: Part 1
Information
European Review , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , May 2006 , pp. 169 - 180
Copyright
Academia Europaea 2006

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