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Title: The Eruption of Vesuvius in 1872

Author: Luigi Palmieri

Translator: Robert Mallet

Release Date: August 22, 2010 [EBook #33483]

Language: English

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THE
ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS
IN 1872,

BY
PROFESSOR LUIGI PALMIERI,
_Of the University of Naples; Director of the Vesuvian Observatory._

WITH NOTES, AND AN
_INTRODUCTORY SKETCH OF THE PRESENT STATE OF KNOWLEDGE_
OF
TERRESTRIAL VULCANICITY,
_The Cosmical Nature and Relations of
Volcanoes and Earthquakes._

BY
ROBERT MALLET,
_Mem. Inst. C.E., F.R.S., F.G.S., M.R.I.A., &c., &c._

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.

LONDON:

_ASHER & CO._,
13, BEDFORD STREET, COVENT GARDEN, W.C.

1873.

W. S. Johnson, Nassau Steam Press, 60, St. Martin's Lane,
Charing Cross, W.C.

"The Translator should look upon himself as a Merchant in the
Intellectual Exchange of the world, whose business it is to promote the
interchange of the produce of the mind."

GOETHE, "_Kunst und Alterthum_."

INTRODUCTORY SKETCH, &c.

The publishers of this little volume, in requesting me to undertake a
translation of the "Incendio Vesuviano," of Professor Palmieri, and to
accompany it with some introductory remarks, have felt justified by the
facts that Signor Palmieri's position as a physicist, the great
advantages which his long residence in Naples as a Professor of the
University, and for many years past Director of the Meteorological
Observatory--established upon Vesuvius itself, prior to the expulsion of
the late dynasty--have naturally caused much weight to attach to
anything emanating from his pen in reference to that volcano.

Nearly forty memoirs on various branches of physics--chiefly
electricity, magnetism and meteorology--produced since 1842, are to be
found under Palmieri's name in the "Universal Catalogue of Scientific
Papers of the Royal Society," and of thes