TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1882//
TI  - Ancient views concerning earthquakes
JO  - The Independent practitioner
A1  - No Author(s) Listed, 
SP  - e420
EP  - e420
VL  - 3
IS  - 6
N2  - Anaxagoras, the Rhodian, held that earthquakes are nothing but a sort  of cosmic flatulence--winds which have strayed into caverns, where they  •cannot find an outlet. Aristotle ascribes them to vapors generated by  the infiltration of water through the fissures of a rocky sea-bottom ; and  Pliny, to the pressure of air confined in deep caves, and reacting against  the collapse of superincumbent rock-strata. But the most ingenious ex  planation is offered by St. Thomas of Aquinas. Earthquakes, he sug  gests, may be caused by the struggles of defunct misbelievers, trying (by  a simultaneous stampede, perhaps) to escape from the pit of torment.--  Popular Science Monthly.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1069-0433
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -