25 results filtered with: Etna, Mount (Italy)
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Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and other volcanos: in a series of letters, addressed to the Royal Society, from the Honourable Sir W. Hamilton, K. B. F. R. S. His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at the Court of Naples, to which are added, explanatory notes by the author, hitherto unpublished.
Hamilton, William, Sir, 1730-1803.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]
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An eruption of Mount Etna at night, possibly in 1787. Coloured mezzotint by J.-M. Mixelle after A. d'Anna.
Anna, Alessandro d'Date: [1787?]Reference: 43877i
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Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and other volcanos: in a series of letters, addressed to the Royal Society / from the Honourable Sir W. Hamilton ... ; to which are added, explanatory notes by the author, hitherto unpublished.
Hamilton, William, Sir, 1730-1803.Date: 1773- Books
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The general history of earthquakes: Being An Account of the most Remarkable and Tremendous Earthquakes that have happened in divers Parts of the World, from the Creation to this Time; As they are recorded by Sacred and Common Authors; And particularly those lately in Naples, Smyrna, Jamaica and Sicily. With a Description of the famous burning Mount, Aetna, in that Island; And the Relation of the several dreadful Conflagrations and Fiery Irruptions thereof for many Ages. Likewise the Natural and Material Causes of Earthquakes, with the usual Signs and Prognosticks of their Approach; And the Consequences and Effects that have followed several of them. By R. B.
R. B., approximately 1632-approximately 1725.Date: M.DCC.XXXIV. [1734]- Books
The general history of earthquakes. Being an account of the most remarkable and tremondous earthquakes that have in divers parts of the world, from the Creation to this time ... and particularly those lately in Naples, Smyrna, Jamaica and Sicily. With a description of the famous burning Mount Aetna, in that island ... Likewise the natural and material causes of earthquakes ... / By R.B. [i.e. Richard Burton, pseud].
R. B., approximately 1632-approximately 1725.Date: 1734
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The eruption of Mount Etna in 1669. Etching.
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A true and exact relation of the late prodigious earthquake and eruption of Mount Aetna, or Monte-Gibello; as it came in a letter written to His Majesty from Naples / by the Right Honorable the Earle of Winchilsea, His Majesties late ambassador at Constantinople, who in his return from thence, visiting Catania in the island of Sicily, was an ey-witness of that dreadful spectacle. Together with a more particular narrative of the same, as it is collected out of several relations sent from Catania. Published by authority.
Winchilsea, Heneage Finch, Earl of, -1689.Date: 1669
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An eruption of Mount Etna at night; people in a boat in the foreground. Coloured aquatint by F. Weber after A. d'Anna.
Anna, Alessandro d', active approximately 1765.Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 575702i- Books
Borelli and the eruption of Etna in 1669 : some unpublished papers / W.E. Knowles.
Knowles, W. E.Date: 1973
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Mount Etna, with Catania below, and St Agatha being tortured with red-hot pincers in the lower margin. Engraving, 16--.
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The vulcano's: or, burning and fire-vomiting mountains, famous in the world: with their remarkables. Collected for the most part out of Kircher's Subterraneous world. And expos'd to more general view in English, upon the relation of the late wonderful and prodigious eruptions of AEtna. Thereby to occasion greater admirations of the wonders of nature (and of the God of nature) in the mighty element of fire ... / [Athanasius Kircher].
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680.Date: 1669
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Mount Etna, snow-capped, by moonlight. Colour aquatint, 1815.
Date: 1815Reference: 43893i
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Recherches et observations naturelles de Monsieur Boccone ... touchant le corail, la pierre etoilée, les pierres de figure de coquilles, la corne d'ammon, l'astroïte undulatus, les dents de poissons pétrifiées, les herissons alterez, l'embrasement du mont Etna, la sangsüe du Xiphias, l'alcyonium stupposum, le bezoar mineral & les plantes qu'on trouve dans la Sicile, avec quelques reflexions sur la vegetation des plantes : examinées à diverses fois dans l'Assemblée de messieurs de Société Royale de Londres, & conferences dans les de Monsieur l'Abbe Bourdelot à Paris / [Paolo Boccone].
Boccone, Paolo, 1633-1704.Date: L'an 1674
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A volcano (Mount Etna?) erupting at night. Coloured aquatint.
Reference: 43878i
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Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and other volcanos: in a series of letters, addressed to the Royal society, from the Honourable Sir W. Hamilton ... / To which are added, explanatory notes by the author, hitherto unpublished.
Hamilton, William, Sir, 1730-1803.Date: 1774- Books
Historia et meteorologia incendii Artnaei anni 1669 / Ioan. Alphonsi Borelli ; accessit responsio ad censuras Rev. P. Honorati Fabri contra librum auctoris De vi percussionis.
Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso, 1608-1679.Date: 1670- Pictures
Mount Etna: subsidiary cones between Mount Etna and the sea. Etching.
Reference: 43881i
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A volcano (Mount Etna?) erupting at night. Gouache painting.
Reference: 43880i
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The forge of Vulcan: he sits by the forge as his assistants work on iron at the anvil. Engraving by Georges Reverdy.
Reverdy, Georges, active 16th century.Date: 1500-1599Reference: 29880i
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The eruption of Mount Etna in 1669. Etching.
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Mount Etna: the interior of the cone, with observers. Etching.
Reference: 43882i
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Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and other volcanos: in a series of letters, addressed to the Royal Society / from the Honourable Sir W. Hamilton ... To which are added, explanatory notes by the author, hitherto unpublished.
Hamilton, William, Sir, 1730-1803.Date: 1772
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Mount Etna and the nearby countryside. Engraving by W. Byrne and T. Medland, 1788, after J. Smith.
Smith, John, 1749-1831.Date: Published as the Act directs, 1 Nov.r 1788Reference: 43892i
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A volcano (Mount Etna?) erupting at night. Coloured aquatint.
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Sicily: a sunset with Mount Etna in the distance. Photograph by Tempest Anderson, 1905.
British Association for the Advancement of Science.Date: 1905Reference: 536462iPart of: The British Association Meeting. S.Africa.