Book ID: CBB001250412

The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter (2013)

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Coen, Deborah R. (Author)


University of Chicago Press


Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: 368 pp.; bibl.; index; ill.
Language: English

Description Covers the period from the 18th to the 20th centuries.


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Review Jenks, Andrew (2013) Review of "The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter". Technology and Culture (pp. 982-983). unapi

Review Westermann, Andrea (2014) Review of "The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter". Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (p. 124). unapi

Review Hochadel, Oliver (2014) Review of "The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter". Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte (pp. 293-294). unapi

Review Cohen, Claudine (2014) Review of "The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 228-229). unapi

Review Valderrama, Lorena B. (2014) Review of "The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 576-577). unapi

Review Knowles, Scott Gabriel (2014) Review of "The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter". American Historical Review (pp. 485-486). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Hough, Susan Elizabeth
Udías, Agustín
Bein, Amit
Clancey, Gregory K.
Esposito, Salvatore
Good, Gregory A.
Journals
Earth Sciences History: Journal of the History of the Earth Sciences Society
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Environment and History
European Physical Journal H
European Review
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
Publishers
University of Minnesota
Princeton University Press
University of California Press
University of Hawai'i Press
University of Washington Press
Concepts
Seismology
Earthquakes
Earth sciences
Geology
Geophysics
Science and society
People
Flamsteed, John
Franklin, Benjamin
Hill, Robert Thomas
Omori, Fusakichi
Serpieri, Alessandro
Willis, Bailey
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
20th century
17th century
21st century
Places
Japan
United States
Croatia
Ottoman Empire
California (U.S.)
France
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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