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A65153 The vulcano's, or, Burning and fire-vomiting mountains, famous in the world, with their remarkables collected for the most part out of Kircher's Subterraneous world, and exposed to more general view in English : upon the relation of the late wonderful and prodigious eruptions of Ætna, thereby to occasion greater admirations of the wonders of nature (and of the God of nature) in the mighty element of fire.; Mundus subterraneus. English. Selections Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680. 1669 (1669) Wing V688; Wing K624; ESTC R7959 57,839 80

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