The Last Day : Wrath, Ruin, and Reason in the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 (Bom Estado)

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Titulo: The Last Day : Wrath, Ruin, and Reason in the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 (Bom Estado)Autor: Nicholas ShradyESTADO: BOM ESTADOISBN/EAN: 9780670018512Editor: Viking Book sAno: 2008Idioma: InglêsEncadernação: N.A.Páginas: 228Coleção: N.A.Nº. da Coleção: N.A.Código de Controlo: 5C Descrição: An account of the cataclysmic mid-eighteenth-century earthquake also discusses how its related tidal waves, fires, and aftershocks rocked the western world, prompting intellectual debates about the natural world and God's place in human affairs as theorized by such Enlightenment figures as Voltaire, Alexander Pope, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. 30,000 first printing. Show more