Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.16492

    Earth's strata

    Date
    1760
    Creator
    John Michell (1724 - 1793) , Natural philosopher
    Object type
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    Manuscript page number
    p172
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (paper): 208mm
    width (paper): 277mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    Earth's strata for explaining earthquakes.

    Printed in John Michell, ‘Conjectures concerning the cause, and observations upon the phaenomena of earthquakes; particularly of that great earthquake of the first of November, 1755, which proved so fatal to the city of Lisbon, and whose effects were felt as far as Africa, and more or less throughout almost all Europe’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 51 (1760), pp. 566-634, tab. 13.
    Transcription
    verso 'Mitchell on Earthquake'
    Transcribed by the Making Visible project
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    John Michell (1724 - 1793) , Natural philosopher
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