Nicholas Shrady is a journalist and the author of Tilt: A Skewed History of the Tower of Pisa.
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A riveting history of how the cataclysmic Lisbon earthquake shook the religious and intellectual foundations of Enlightenment Europe. Along with the volcanic destruction of Pompeii and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the Lisbon quake of 1755 is ... SEE MORE