Christian Observer,  1 (1802), 19–22.

Descent into the Crater of Mount Vesuvius

A. T.

Genre:

Letter, Introduction; Extract, Miscellaneous

Publications extracted:

Philosophical Magazine

Subjects:

Vulcanology, Cultural Geography, Theology of Nature, Providence, Wonder, Feeling | Vulcanology, Heroism, Instruments, Observation, Chemistry, Mineralogy

People mentioned:

Lazzaro Spallanzani , Dieudonné de G de Dolomieu , John Moore , William Hamilton , François R Houdouart , René A F de Réaumur

Publications cited:

Journal de Physique


    The author introduces the extract with unfavourable comments on the vain and irreligious attitudes of the Frenchmen who made the descent. He observes: 'I would rather stand upon the brink of the crater, with my heart elevated and expanded by a view of the greatness of God's works [...] than with the mind and motives of a philosophist, cultivate science in the very jaws of destruction' (19).



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