1. A New Earth

  1. ‘Den Aardkloot van water ontbloot, na twee zyden aante sien’. From Willem Goeree, Voor-Bereidselen tot de Bybelse Wysheid (Amsterdam, 1690). Collection Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, RP-P-1916-404.




  2. Two climatological models. From Willem Goeree, Voor-Bereidselen tot de Bybelse Wysheid (Amsterdam, 1690). Collection Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, RP-P-1916-400.




  3. ‘Creation of the World’, three cross-sections of the Earth. From Willem Goeree, Voor-Bereidselen tot de Bybelse Wysheid (Amsterdam, 1690). Collection Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, RP-P-1916-403.




  4. The eye of the Abyss. From Thomas Burnet, The Sacred Theory of the Earth (London, 1684). Courtesy of The Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology, QB981.B8 1684 v.1.




  5. ‘Schema Globi Terr=Aqua=Aeri’. From Joachim Becher, Opuscula Chymica RarioraI (Nuremberg and Altorf, 1719). Courtesy of The Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology, QD27.B4165 1719.




  6. Ideal scheme of the earth. From Athanasius Kircher, Mundus Subterraneus (1665). Courtesy of The Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology, Q155.K6 1665.




  7. Section of the earth. From Thomas Robinson, The Anatomy of the Earth (London, 1694). Early English Books Online, Copyright ProQuest LLC, images reproduced by courtesy of British Library.

    Not included due to copyright restrictions.


  8. Mappa Mundi. From Jean Mansel, La Fleur des Histoires (1456-63). Koninklijke Bibliotheek Brussel, MS9232.

    Not included due to copyright restrictions.


  9. Pocket globe (c. 1710). Caird Collection (via Spencer), National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, GLB0013.2.




  10. Two sections. From Amos Eaton, Geological Text-Book, prepared for Popular Lectures on North American Geology (Albany, 1830). The Internet Archive/Smithsonian Libraries.




  11. Title page for a Bible, by Theodor Matham and Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem (1663). Collection Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, RP-P-1991-50.




  12. Cross-section of the earth. From Theodore Barin, Le Monde Naissant, ou La Création du monde, démontrée par des principes tres simples & tres conformes à l’histoire de Moyse Genes, chap. I & II (Brussels, 1722 [1sted. Utrecht, 1686]). Source gallica.bnf.fr / BnF.




  13. Detail from ‘A New and Accurate Map of All the World’. E. Bowen (1744). Wikimedia Commons/Geographicus.




  14. The fourth figure from William Whiston’ New Theory of the Earth (London, 1696). Courtesy of The Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology, QH363 .W5 1696. 




  15. Scheuchzer’s seventh Tabula, from his Physica Sacra (Augsburg and Ulm, 1731). Courtesy of The Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology, QH41.S339 1731.




  16. Cross-section of the earth. From Nicolaas Hartsoeker, Principes de Physique (Paris, 1696). Courtesy of The Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology, QC19.H215 1696.




  17. Two plates depicting the earth. From Augustin Calmet, Dictionnaire Historique, Critique, Chronologique, Geographique et Lietral de la Bible vol ii e-m (Paris, 1730). Source gallica.bnf.fr / BnF, A-1458 (2,e-m).