The philosophy of earthquakes, Natural and Religious. Or An Inquiry into their Cause, and their Purpose. By William Stukeley, M.D. Rector of St. George’s, Queen-Square : Fellow of the College of Physicians and Royal Society

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Full title:</b> The philosophy of earthquakes, Natural and Religious. Or An Inquiry into their Cause, and their Purpose. By William Stukeley, M.D. Rector of St. George’s, Queen-Square: Fellow of the College of Physicians and Royal Society: The Second Edition. To which is added, Part II. on the same Subject.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 8vo. pp. 61, [1], 32. Marbled wrappers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">The present work is the first edition of an essay by the English physician, antiquarian, and clergyman William Stukeley (1687-1765) presented to the Royal Society. In it, he dismisses the natural cause of earthquakes as proposed by others, and states that a punishing God, working through natural phenomena such as electrical sparks, is the primal cause of earthquakes. See also ESTC T180036. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991039120519707861" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>