Download or read book A True and Particular History of Earthquakes Containing a Relation of that Dreadful Earthquake which Happen d at Lima and Callao in Peru October 28 1746 By Philotheus written by Philotheus and published by . This book was released on 1748 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A True Particular History of Earthquakes written by Philotheus and published by . This book was released on 1748 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Nuggets written by Henry Stevens (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical nuggets Bibliotheca Americana or A descriptive account of my collection of rare books relating to America H Stevens and H N Stevens written by Henry Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana Or A Descriptive Account of My Collection of Rare Books Relating to America written by Henry Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reading the Skies written by Vladimir Jankovic and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-04-19 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the time of Aristotle until the late eighteenth century, meteorology meant the study of "meteors"—spectacular objects in the skies beneath the moon, which included everything from shooting stars to hailstorms. In Reading the Skies, Vladimir Jankovic traces the history of this meteorological tradition in Enlightenment Britain, examining its scientific and cultural significance. Jankovic interweaves classical traditions, folk/popular beliefs and practices, and the increasingly quantitative approaches of urban university men to understanding the wonders of the skies. He places special emphasis on the role that detailed meteorological observations played in natural history and chorography, or local geography; in religious and political debates; and in agriculture. Drawing on a number of archival sources, including correspondence and weather diaries, as well as contemporary pamphlets, tracts, and other printed sources reporting prodigious phenomena in the skies, this book will interest historians of science, Britain, and the environment.
Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A True and Particular Relation of the Dreadful Earthquake which Happen d at Lima written by Pedro Lozano and published by . This book was released on 1748 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Blenden Hall written by John Gilbert Lockhart and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Blenden Hall" (The True Story of a Shipwreck, a Casting Away, and Life on a Desert Island) by John Gilbert Lockhart. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Shaky Colonialism written by Charles F. Walker and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-26 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A social history of the earthquake-tsunami that struck Lima in October 1746, looking at how people in and beyond Lima understood and reacted to the natural disaster.
Download or read book The Politics of Earthquake Prediction written by Richard S. Olson and published by . This book was released on 2014-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Politics of Earthquake Prediction is a suspenseful account of what happens when scientists predict an enormous earthquake for a specific day--an earthquake that did not, in this instance, happen, but which, if it had, would have been one of the most destructive of our century. Working in a field where uncertainty abounds, Dr. Brian Brady of the U.S. Bureau of Mines and Dr. William Spence of the U.S. Geological Survey gradually came to the conclusion that a catastrophic quake would occur on June 28, 1981, off the coast of central Peru, near the great population center of Lima-Callao. Their research was based on a theory challenging scientific notions widely accepted in the seismological "establishment." This book is a fast-paced but thorough and sensitive description of how this scientific dispute became a political controversy. The work portrays in detail the struggles of scientists and government officials in both the United States and Peru attempting to "do the right thing" as the target date approached. The authors emphasize the political, economic, and moral dilemmas of earthquake prediction, the impact of the media, and the potentially drastic consequences of ignoring a valid prediction. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
