A volcanic eruption was a fitting subject for Joseph Wright. The artist had links with some of the great scientific thinkers in an age when science was beginning to discover the secrets of the forces that shape the Earth.
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Kemp, M. Wright's ruptions. Nature 391, 645 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/35524
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