Place
Etna, Mount (Italy)
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![Recherches et observations naturelles de Monsieur Boccone ... touchant le corail, la pierre etoilée, les pierres de figure de coquilles, la corne d'ammon, l'astroïte undulatus, les dents de poissons pétrifiées, les herissons alterez, l'embrasement du mont Etna, la sangsüe du Xiphias, l'alcyonium stupposum, le bezoar mineral & les plantes qu'on trouve dans la Sicile, avec quelques reflexions sur la vegetation des plantes : examinées à diverses fois dans l'Assemblée de messieurs de Société Royale de Londres, & conferences dans les de Monsieur l'Abbe Bourdelot à Paris / [Paolo Boccone].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0035233/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
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An eruption of Mount Etna at night, possibly in 1787. Coloured mezzotint by J.-M. Mixelle after A. d'Anna.
Anna, Alessandro d'Date: [1787?]Reference: 43877i
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Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and other volcanos: in a series of letters, addressed to the Royal Society / from the Honourable Sir W. Hamilton ... ; to which are added, explanatory notes by the author, hitherto unpublished.
Hamilton, William, Sir, 1730-1803.Date: 1773- Books
The general history of earthquakes. Being an account of the most remarkable and tremondous earthquakes that have in divers parts of the world, from the Creation to this time ... and particularly those lately in Naples, Smyrna, Jamaica and Sicily. With a description of the famous burning Mount Aetna, in that island ... Likewise the natural and material causes of earthquakes ... / By R.B. [i.e. Richard Burton, pseud].
R. B., approximately 1632-approximately 1725.Date: 1734
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The eruption of Mount Etna in 1669. Etching.
Reference: 43869i- Books
A true and exact relation of the late prodigious earthquake and eruption of Mount Aetna, or Monte-Gibello; as it came in a letter written to His Majesty from Naples / by the Right Honorable the Earle of Winchilsea, His Majesties late ambassador at Constantinople, who in his return from thence, visiting Catania in the island of Sicily, was an ey-witness of that dreadful spectacle. Together with a more particular narrative of the same, as it is collected out of several relations sent from Catania. Published by authority.
Winchilsea, Heneage Finch, Earl of, -1689.Date: 1669