The Eruption of Vesuvius in 1872

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

[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...