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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.
Quest. III. What are the several sorts, or kinds of Earthquakes?
There is difference amongst Philosophers in this point, some making 2 sorts or kinds of Earthquakes, as Possidonius, ⟨p. 30⟩and Aristotle; some 3 as Seneca and Zan•hy. Some 7 which last they thus distinguish and nominate.
There is difference amongst Philosophers in this point, some making 2 sorts or kinds of Earthquakes, as Possidonius, ⟨p. 30⟩and Aristotle; some 3 as Seneea and Zan•hy. Some 7 which last they thus distinguish and nominate.
1. An Earthquake of one sort is an Inclining Earthquake, when the Earth is caused to incline one way, like a S•ip upon the Sea, or a Boat on the River, when laden more on one side than the other, leans that way only, where the greater weight and burden is laid. In this kind of Earthquake a Room seems to be lifted up on one side, and sink down or depressed on the other.