2. Foundations

  1. Section of the forming of sandbanks. From Simon Stevin’s Wisconstige Gedachtenissen, Eertclootschrift (leiden, 1608). Universiteit Utrecht.

    Not included due to copyright restrictions.

  2. Cross-section from Thomas Robinson’s New Observations (Londond, 1696). Courtesy of The Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology, QH363 .R62 1696.




  3. View of Creation from Robert Fludd’s Utriusque Cosmi (Oppenheim, 1618). Courtesy of The Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology, BD500 .F58 1617 quarto.




  4. Experiment from Robert Fludd’s Utriusque Cosmi (Oppenheim, 1618). Courtesy of The Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology, BD500 .F58 1617 quarto.




  5. The Holy Spirit from Robert Fludd’s Utriusque Cosmi (Oppenheim, 1618). Courtesy of The Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology, BD500 .F58 1617 quarto; Circular representation of creation from Robert Fludd’s Utriusque Cosmi (Oppenheim, 1618). Courtesy of The Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology, BD500 .F58 1617 quarto.






  6. Frontispiece from the 1738 edition of Becher’s Physica Subterranea. Bound together with, and catalogued as Joachim Becher, Opuscula Chymica RarioraI (Nuremberg and Altorf, 1719). Courtesy of The Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology, QD27.B4165 1719.




  7. ‘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.




  8. First section of the earth from René Descartes’ Principia Philosophiae (Amsterdam, 1644). Courtesy of The Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology, B1863.




  9. Two semi-sections from René Descartes’ Principia Philosophiae (Amsterdam, 1644). Courtesy of The Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology, B1863.




  10. Close-up of the sections in Steno’s Prodromus. Nicolaus Steno, The Prodromus to a Dissertation concerning Solids Naturally Contained within Solids (Henry Oldenburg trans.; London, 1671). Courtesy of The Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology, QE709 .S8 1671.




  11. 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.