The oscillatory seismic motion and the daily motion of the Earth in Francesco Travagini's Physica Disquisitio (1669)

Francesco Travagini, chemist, physician and naturalist, well known in Europe in his time, wrote the Physica Disquisitio after directly observing the effects of the 1667 Dubrovnik earthquake on the waters and buildings of Venice, distant by about 800 km. He posed the problem of the origin of the osci...

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