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 exposed to more general view in English : upon the relation of the late wonderful and prodigious eruptions of Ætna, thereby to occasion greater admirations of the wonders of nature (and of the God of nature) in the mighty element of fire.

Title

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 exposed to more general view in English : upon the relation of the late wonderful and prodigious eruptions of Ætna, thereby to occasion greater admirations of the wonders of nature (and of the God of nature) in the mighty element of fire.

Author

Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680.

Publication

London :: Printed by J. Darby, for John Allen, and are to be sold by him ..., and by Benjamin Billingsly ...,

1669.

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Subject terms

Volcanoes -- Early works to 1800.

Etna, Mount (Italy)

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"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 exposed to more general view in English : upon the relation of the late wonderful and prodigious eruptions of Ætna, thereby to occasion greater admirations of the wonders of nature (and of the God of nature) in the mighty element of fire." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A65153.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 26, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• illustration
• title page
• The Epistle to the READER.
• The Explication of the Schemes, out of Kircher.
  • I.
  • II.
• The TABLE.
• The VULCANO'S: OR, Mountains vomiting Fire, famous in the World; with their Remarkables.
• CHAP. II. Of Vulcano's ingeneral; What, and where; In Asia, Africa, America, and Europe.
• CHAP. III. Of the Vulcano's of Italy, Scicily, and Neighbouring Islands.
• CHAP. IV. Of the Remarkables of Vulcano's, and their most prodi∣gious Phaenomena's, bitberto observ'd, in particular; With particular Relations, &c.
  • The Relation of Fa. Fr. Riccard, concerning Subterraneous Fires, which brake forth from the bottom of the Sea, in the year 1650. near the Island Santorin, in the Archi∣pelago.
• CHAP. V. Of the Remarkables of the Italian Vulcano's, and their prodigious Eruptions in particular; with particular Relations.
  • Vulcan's Court described.
  • A Description of the Phlegraean Plain, in the Fields of Putzol, or Puteoli, near Naples, by Athanas. Kir∣cher, his own Observation, An. 1638.
  • Of Vesuvius, a Vulcanian Mountain, in the Kingdom of Naples likewise, now called Monte di Somma.
    • Of an exact Search and Enquiry made into the Moun∣tain Vesuvius, by Kircher, in the year 1638.
    • The RELATION.
• CHAP. VI. Of the Remarkables of the grand Volcano Aetna, in especial: and its most remarkable Eruptions: together with the Vulcanian Islands adjoyning.
  • A Description of Aetna by Kircher. Wherein, as in a certain Prototype, the Reasons of Subter∣raneous Fires, and their never failing food, are de∣monstrated, as we use to say, to the Eye.
  • A Description of the Aetnaean Crater, or (deep and wide-mouth'd) Fire-Cup.
  • A Chronicle of the Eruptions, and Burnings of Aetna.
    • Corallary I.
    • Corallary II.
    • Corallary III.
  • Of the Liparitan or Vulcanian Islands adjoyning, com∣monly called the Vulcanello's.
  • A fuller Relation of the Spanish Priests Error and attempt, about getting Gold out of one of these flam∣ing Mountains in the West-Indies.
  • London, (if the Story were true) accidentally beholding to flaming Mount Strombolo.
  • A pretty devised Story and Catholick pious Tale concerning the oc∣casian of Sir Tho. Gresham's devout Life, and pious and chari∣table Inclinations and good Deeds, and the converting his great acquired Riches, to such worthy and publick uses, Viz. From the sound of an horrid Voice, out of the mouth of one of these Hellish Volcano's, the Prodigious Mount Strombolo.
• ERRATA.