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This Gulf of Fire: The Great Lisbon Earthquake and the Forging of the Modern World
Division of Research Programs
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"Allegory to the 1755 Earthquake", by João Glama Strobërle.
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Photo caption
"Allegory to the 1755 Earthquake", by João Glama Strobërle.
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Mark C. Molesky examines the Great Lisbon Earthquake and its impact on the ways that philosophers and theologians thought about disaster and nature in This Gulf of Fire: The Great Lisbon Earthquake, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason.