Possibly volcanic eruptions were as frequent as in modern times, but no one cared then about natural phenomena of any sort, unless connected with such great matters as the fright of an emperor or the glory of a saint. Only two eruptions are recorded in... The Edinburgh Journal of Science - Pàgina 3021829Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Louis Simond - 1828 - 644 pàgines
...having likewise been frightened. * In the intermediate time (the year 252) torrents of liquid fire running down the sides of ./Etna turned away at the...eight. Catania, shaken and more or less injured at everyone of these convulsions of ./Etna, was completely overturned or burnt down, and its inhabitants... | |
| Louis Simond - 1828 - 654 pàgines
...frightened. In the intermediate time (the year 252) torrents of liquid fire running down the sides of j£tna turned away at the tomb of St. Agatha, an indigenous...eight. Catania, shaken and more or less injured at everyone of these convulsions of ./Etna, was completely overturned or burnt down, and its inhabitants... | |
| 1829 - 576 pàgines
...modern times, hut no one cared then ahout natural phenomena of any sort, unless connected with euch great matters as the fright of an emperor or the glory...eight. Catania, shaken and more or less injured at every one of these convulsions of /Etna, was completely overturned or hurnt down, and its inhahitante... | |
| Henry Winfred Thurston - 1899 - 308 pàgines
...in- We have already spoken, in Chapter II, of the Agriculture• rapid enclosure of the common fields during the last part of the fifteenth century and the first part of the sixteenth. After that, it went on very slowly during the whole period until about 1760, at which time probably... | |
| Charles Christian Heyl - 1912 - 482 pàgines
...greater popularity in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries than in the fifteenth. Piero was active during the last part of the fifteenth century and the first part of the sixteenth. This picture is one of the earliest successful representations of the subject. It is a mystical composition... | |
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