Category: Science - Earth/Agricultural/Farming

The Eruption of Vesuvius in 1872

"The Translator should look upon himself as a Merchant in the Intellectual Exchange of the world, whose business it is to promote the interchange of the produce of the mind."

Chapters

5. Part 5

The views which I have put forward in the Paper I have referred to, read to the Royal Society, recapitulated in skeleton, so to say, are as follows. Omitting those portions whic...

6. Part 6

We have thus traced, in meagre and broken outline only--because space admitted no more--the progress of Science to its existing state as respects Vulcanicity, in its two branche...

8. Part 8

As the smoke of the fluid lava is perfectly neutral, that is, neither acid nor alkaline, so the fumaroles at the first period of their existence with sublimations of sea-salt, m...

7. Part 7

Simultaneously with the grand fissure of the cone, two large craters opened at the summit, discharging with a dreadful noise, audible at a great distance, an immense cloud of sm...

1. Part 1

"The Translator should look upon himself as a Merchant in the Intellectual Exchange of the world, whose business it is to promote the interchange of the produce of the mind."

4. Part 4

The stratigraphic geologist sees that such heated or fused masses have come up from beneath, throughout every epoch that he can trace; but he cannot fail to discern more or less...

3. Part 3

If, therefore, we can determine the direction of motion of the wave particle in the first semiphase, and its maximum velocity, we can obtain, from any selected point, a line (th...

10. Part 10

[1] (P. 82, text). Professor Palmieri has not given any description in this Memoir of his seismograph--the instruments described being those only which have relation to atmosphe...

9. Part 9

Our ancestors could judge that a great amount of electricity was occasionally evolved in the smoke, from their observation of the lightning flashes that darted through the Vesuv...

2. Part 2

And some indication of the general truth of the fact was derivable from comparing the rude previous approximations to the transit rate of some great Earthquakes. In the case of...