4. Particles and textures

  1. ‘Orde in Chaos’, depiction of a passage in Ovid’s Metamorphoses by Hendrick Goltzius, 1589. Collection Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, RP-P-1882-A-6343.





  2. Section of the earth in four quadrants from René Descartes, Principia Philosophiae (Amsterdam, 1644). Courtesy of The Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology, B1863.





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





  4. Two full-page views of sections of the earth from René Descartes, Principia Philosophiae (Amsterdam, 1644). Courtesy of The Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology, B1863.



    [First plate shown in 4.3]



  5. Close up of plate 4.3 from René Descartes, Principia Philosophiae (Amsterdam, 1644). Courtesy of The Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology, B1863.

    [See plate 4.3]



  6. The earth in four quadrants from René Descartes, Principia Philosophiae (Amsterdam, 1644). Courtesy of The Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology, B1863.





  7. Descartes’ depiction of magnetic forces as corkscrew particles from René Descartes, Principia Philosophiae(Amsterdam, 1644). Courtesy of The Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology, B1863.





  8. Section from De la Grange’s Traité des Elemens (Paris, 1678). Source gallica.bnf.fr / BnF.





  9. Semi-section from De la Grange’s Traité des Elemens (Paris, 1678). Source gallica.bnf.fr / BnF.





  10. Section from Claude Gadroys, Le Systeme du Monde, selon les trois hypotheses (Paris, 1675). Source gallica.bnf.fr / BnF.





  11. View of the universe from Théodore 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 (Brussles, 1722 [1st ed. Utrecht, 1686]). Source gallica.bnf.fr / BnF.





  12. Two sections of the earth from Théodore 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 (Brussles, 1722 [1sted. Utrecht, 1686]). Source gallica.bnf.fr / BnF.







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







  14. First three sections from Thomas Burnet’s The Sacred Theory of the Earth (London, 1684). Courtesy of The Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology, QB981.B8 1684 v.1.









  15. Second section from Burnet’s The Sacred Theory of the Earth (London, 1684). Courtesy of The Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology, QB981.B8 1684 v.1.





  16. Fourth section from Burnet’s The Sacred Theory of the Earth (London, 1684). Courtesy of The Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology, QB981.B8 1684 v.1.





  17. Plate from Johan Conrad Barchusen’s Elementa Chemiae (Leiden, 1718). Paris BIU Santé.

    Not included due to copyright restrictions.



  18. First section from Erasmus Warren’s Geologia or, a discourse concerning the earth before the deluge(London, 1690). ETH Bibliothek Zürich, rar 10342.





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





  20. Two sections from Francis Walsh’s The Antediluvian World; or, a New Theory of the Earth (Dublin, 1743). Google Books.







  21. Section from Alexander Catcott’s A Treatise on the Deluge (London, 1761). Google Books.





  22. Two views of the Ark from Willem Goeree’s Voor-Bereidsels tot de Bybelse Wysheid (Amsterdam, 1690). Collection Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, RP-P-1896-A-19368-834 (a) and RP-P-1896-A-19368-837 (b).







  23. Two sections from Willem Goeree’s Voor-Bereidsels tot de Bybelse Wysheid (Amsterdam, 1690). Collection Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, RP-P-1916-398.





  24. Two sections from Willem Goeree’s Voor-Bereidsels tot de Bybelse Wysheid (Amsterdam, 1690). Collection Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, RP-P-1916-399.





  25. Close up of plates 4.23 and 4.24.


  26. Invention of the Corinthian style from the manuscript version of Willem Goeree’s d’Algemeene Bouwkunde volgens de antijcke en hedensdaagse manier […] bewezen en vastgesteldt (1679/80). Koninklijke Bibliotheek Den Haag, KW 68 B 11.

    Not included due to copyright restrictions.


  27. Close up of plate 4.23.
  28. Close up of plate 4.24.