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Earthquakes explained and practically improved
Earthquakes explained and practically improved: occasioned by the late earthquake on Sept. 8. 1692. in London, many other parts in England, and beyond sea. / By Thomas Doolittle, M.A. The author also of the treatise on the Lords-Supper. ; Jamaica's miseries show London's mercies. Both compared.Earthquakes explained and practically improved: occasioned by the late earthquake on Sept. 8. 1692. in London, many other parts in England, and beyond sea. / By Thomas Doolittle, M.A. The author also of the treatise on the Lords-Supper. ; Jamaica's miseries shew London's mercies. Both compared.
printed by Benjamin Harris & are to be sold, 1693
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Others Reduce these to two.
1. There is a Trembling Earthquake, when the Earth Quivers like a Man in a Fit of an Ague. This kind of Earthquake is when the Vapour in the Earth is not much.
1. There is a Tremblg Earthquake, when the Earth Qivers like a Man in a Fit of an Ague. This kind of Earthquake is when the Vapour in the Earth is not much.
2 There is an Earthquake which moves the Earth upwards, and then again downwards. This by Aristotle's followers is called Pulsus, like the beating of a mans Pulse.
2 There is an Earthquake which moves the Earth upwards, and then again downwards. This by Aristotles followers is called Pulsus, like the beating of a mans Pulse.
Quest. 4▪ What are the usual Antecedent Signs of an approaching Earthquake given by Natural Philosophers, which by Observation and Experience they commend unto us.