The "sublime" evokes beauty, excellence, grandiosity, and at the same time fear, awe and danger. It triggers emotions that transcend the ordinary, confronting us with events, phenomena and objects that uncannily exceed our understanding. In an attempt to separate the beautiful from the sublime, Edmund Burke defined the latter as a delicious terror, while Immanuel Kant distinguished between the mathematical sublime, evoked by titanic elements of nature, and the dynamic sublime, evoked by overwhelming and terrifying forces, such as volcanic eruptions, hurricanes and tempests at sea.