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| Titolo: | Earthly powers / edited by Richard Hamblyn. |
| Pubblicazione: | 2003. |
| Descrizione fisica: | XVIII, 427 p. |
| Contiene: | Indice: Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. The Vulcano's, or Burning and fire-vomiting mountains...collected for the most part out of Kircher's Subterraneous world (1669) 2. Di mirabilibus Pecci, being the wonders of the peak in Darby-shire, commonly called The devil's arse of peak (1678) / Thomas Hobbes 2. A discourse of trade-winds, breezes, storms, tides and currents (1669) / William Dampier 3. The storm (1704) / Daniel Defoe 4.The preface to A rational account of the weather (1738) / John Pointer 5. An account or the glaciers of ice Alps in Savoy (1744) / Peter Martel 6. A descriptive poem, addressed to two ladies at their return from viewing the mines near Whitehaven (1755) / John Dalton 7. A farther account of the giant's causeway in Philosophical transactions (1753) / Richard Pococke 8. The life of John Buncle, Esq. (1756, 1765) / Thomas Amory 9. Serious thoughts occasioned by the late earthquake at Lisbon (1755) / John Wesley 10. Conjectures concerning the cause, and observations upon the phaenomena of earthquakes (1760) / John Michell 11. A dissertation on rivers and tides (1770) / Robert Erskine 12. A letter from Thomas Ronayne, Esq. to Benjamin Franklin, LL.D. F.R.S. including an account of some observations on atmospherical electricity... communicated by Mr William Henley, Philosophical transactions (1772) 13. Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and other volcanos (1772) / William Hamilton 14. An inquiry into the original state and formation of the Earth, deduced from the facts and laws of nature (1778) / John Whitehurst 15. Theory of the Earth, with proofs and illustrations, from the Transactions of the Royal society of Edinburgh (1788) / James Hutton 16. On the primeval state of the globe, Geological essays (1799) / Richard Kirwan 17. On the modification of clouds &c (1804) / Luke Howard 18. An essay on dew and several appearances connected with it (1815) / William Charles Wells 19. Description of ice-fields, and remarks on their formation and tremendous concussions, An account of the Arctic region, and of the whale-fishery(1820) / William Scoresby, jr. Bibliography. Endnotes |
| In: |  Literature and science, 1660-1834. London : Pickering & Chatto, 2003-2004. 3 |
| Altri autori: | Hamblyn, Richard.
Scoresby, William, 1789-1857. Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679. Defoe, Daniel, ca. 1661-1731. Dampier, William, 1652-1715. Pointer, John, 1668-1754. Martel, Peter, ca. 1701-1761. Amory, Thomas, 1701-1774. Dalton, John, 1709-1763. Pococke, Richard, 1704-1765. Michell, John, ca. 1724-1793. Wesley, John, 1703-1791. Erskine, Robert, 1735-1780. Ronayne, Thomas, ca. 1730-1800. Henley, William, m. 1779. Hamilton, William, 1730-1803. Hutton, James, 1726-1797. Whitehurst, John, 1713-1788. Kirwan, Richard, 1733-1812. Howard, Luke, 1772-1864. Wells, William Charles, 1757-1817. Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680. |
| Collocazione: | Cons. Autori Vari 039 |
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