Earth's strata
Date
1760
Creator
John Michell (1724 - 1793) , Natural philosopher
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Manuscript page number
p173
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Dimensions
height (paper): 153mm
width (paper): 182mm
width (paper): 182mm
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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.
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.
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John Michell (1724 - 1793) , Natural philosopher
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