Practical reflections on the earthquakes that have happened in Europe and America but chiefly in the islands of Jamaica, England, Sicily, Malta, &c. With a particular and historical account of them, and divers other earthquakes / by John Shower.

  • John Shower
Date:
1750
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Credit: Practical reflections on the earthquakes that have happened in Europe and America but chiefly in the islands of Jamaica, England, Sicily, Malta, &c. With a particular and historical account of them, and divers other earthquakes / by John Shower. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ) C 89 ] After this Earthquake'enfued a great plague, where¬ with the city was grievoufly vifited, and, for the molt part, unpeopled. But when the Earthquake ceafed, and the mortality was afiwaged, Bajazet caufed the imperial city to be repaired with all fpeed, and em¬ ployed 80,000 men about it, who, in the fpace of four months, in a molt beautiful manner, repaired the ruins of that great city. Anno 1510, the late wars of the French in Savoy, were thought to be forelhewn by many prodigies, and even thofe preceded by an Earthquake in Apulia, whereby more than 16,000 perfons were overwhelmed ; after which enfued the war, which devoured more than 1,000,000 of men. Anno 1631, the like terrible Earthquake, in Fe¬ bruary, was in and about the city of Naples, before the commotions and troubles there, which did fuch mifehief as to houfes, men and cattle, as can’t be ex- p relied. In the year 1590, the eledtion of pope Urban the Seventeenth, was fignalized by an Earthquake, which made Auftria, Bohemia, and Moravia to tremble, and was followed by an extraordinary drought. Gregory XIV. quickly fucceeded, and died in ten months. There was fuch a famine and plague in 7 Italy that I year, that above 60,000 died. CHAP 7 Cluverius citing Thuanul
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