“This is a story about how people reacted to an earthquake that occurred in 1601 in the German region of Württemberg. Our guides for the story are two Lutheran pastors who were also father and son, Lucas and Andreas Osiander...”

So begins today’s story from Dr. Sky Michael Johnston.

For further reading:
Renaissance Meteorology: Pomponazzi to Descartes, by Craig Martin (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011)