The philosophy of earthquakes, Natural and Religious. Or An
The philosophy of earthquakes, Natural and Religious. Or An Inquiry into their Cause, and their Purpose. By William Stukeley, M.D. Rector of St. George’s, Queen-Square : Fellow of the College of Physicians and Royal Society
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Full title:</b> The philosophy of earthquakes, Natural and Religious. Or An Inquiry into their Cause, and their Purpose. By William Stukeley, M.D. Rector of St. George’s, Queen-Square: Fellow of the College of Physicians and Royal Society: The Second Edition. To which is added, Part II. on the same Subject.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 8vo. pp. 61, [1], 32. Marbled wrappers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">The present work is the first edition of an essay by the English physician, antiquarian, and clergyman William Stukeley (1687-1765) presented to the Royal Society. In it, he dismisses the natural cause of earthquakes as proposed by others, and states that a punishing God, working through natural phenomena such as electrical sparks, is the primal cause of earthquakes. See also ESTC T180036.
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991039120519707861" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 8vo. pp. 61, [1], 32. Marbled wrappers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">The present work is the first edition of an essay by the English physician, antiquarian, and clergyman William Stukeley (1687-1765) presented to the Royal Society. In it, he dismisses the natural cause of earthquakes as proposed by others, and states that a punishing God, working through natural phenomena such as electrical sparks, is the primal cause of earthquakes. See also ESTC T180036.
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991039120519707861" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>
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