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Hall, eds,
The Correspondence of Henry Oldenburg
, vol. iv:
1667-
1668
(Madison, wi, 1967). These queries were posed at the Royal
Society meeting on 7 May 1668. The original letter in Latin can be
found at the Royal Society, el/01/67.
11 Joscelyn Godwin,
Athanasius Kircher's Theatre of the World
(London,
2009).
12 Athanasius Kircher,
The
VULCANO
'
S
: or, Burning and Fire-Vomiting
MOUNTAINS
, Famous in the World: With their
REMARKABLES
.
Collected
for the most part out of
KIRCHER
'
S
Subterraneous World; And expos'd to
more general view in English, upon the Relation of the late Wonderful
and Prodigious Eruptions of
ÆTNA
.
Thereby to occasion greater admira-
tions of the Wonders of Nature (and of the God of Nature) in the mighty
Element of Fire
(London, 1669).
13 Ibid., pp. 6-7.
14 Ibid., 'Explication of Schemes, out of Kircher', preface.
15 Ibid., p. 35.
16 Silvester Darius to King James v of Scotland, Rome, 24 October
1538; British Library, London, Royal ms 18 b. vi, ff. 53v-54r.
17 Scarth and Tanguy,
Volcanoes of Europe
, p. 65.
18 William Bray, ed.,
The Diary of John Evelyn
(London, 1907, revd
1952), vol. i, pp. 152-3.
19 Francesco Serao,
The Natural History of Mount Vesuvius
, trans. from
the Italian (London, 1743), pp. 40-41.
20 Ibid.
21 Ibid.
22 Anonymous letter from Naples, 10 July 1737; British Library,
London, Sloane ms 2039, ff. 44-50.
23 Patrick Brydone,
A Tour through Sicily and Malta
(Dublin, 1780),
p. 132.
24 Volcanic Explosive Index (vei) scale 2, indicating an 'explosive' event
in which more than a million cubic metres of material is ejected.
25 'Exploration of the volcano Misti, Near Arequipa', British Library,
London, Add. ms 30170b.
26 Entry on 'John Warltire',
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
(Oxford, 2004); N. G. Coley, 'John Warltire, 1738/9-1810,
Itinerant Lecturer and Chemist',
West Midlands Studies
, 3 (1969),
pp. 31-44.
27 Royal Society, London, cb/1/3/182.
28 Royal Society, Classified Papers/4ii /11; 'Description of a burning
volcano in the County of Kerry . . . as communicated by letter to
the Rt. Rev. the Bishop of Kenmore',
Dublin Evening Post
, i/84,
24-7 March 1733.
29 Joseph Priestley to Josiah Wedgwood, 18 May 1781, Royal Society,
mm/5/6.
