6. Instruments for the imagination

  1. Drunk people around a tap in the appearance of a globe, proof-print for Jan Luyken’s De onwaardige wereld, vertoond in vyftig zinnebeelden, met godlyke spreuken en stichtelyke verzen (Amsterdam, 1710). Collection Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, RP-P-OB-45.517.





  2. Emblema XLV. De secretis Natura. From Michael Maier’s Atalanta Fugiens (Oppenheim, 1618). The Internet Archive.





  3. Baptismum Mundi, from Francesco de Holanda’s De Aetatibus Mundi Imagines (1545). Biblioteca Nacional de España, DIB/14/26.

    Not included due to copyright restrictions.



  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. The deluge by 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.





  6. 3 views of the broken crust of the earth 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.





  7. Two views of the earth 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.







  8. A scheme and a figure 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.







  9. Climatological model earths from Thomas Burnet’s Sacred Theory of the Earth (London, 1684). Courtesy of The Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology, QB981.B8 1684 v.1.





  10. Earth without water from Athanasius Kircher, Mundus Subterraneus (1665). Courtesy of The Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology, Q155.K6 1665.





  11. ‘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.





  12. Two views of the earth from Willem Goeree, Voor-Bereidselen tot de Bybelse Wysheid (Amsterdam, 1690). Universiteitsbibliotheek Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, XI.05177.-.





  13. Cut-open earth from Willem Goeree, Voor-Bereidselen tot de Bybelse Wysheid (Amsterdam, 1690). Collection Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, RP-P-1916-401.





  14. Cut-open earth from Willem Goeree, Voor-Bereidselen tot de Bybelse Wysheid (Amsterdam, 1690). Collection Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, RP-P-1916-402.





  15. Observations of several planets from Willem Goeree, Voor-Bereidselen tot de Bybelse Wysheid(Amsterdam, 1690). Collection Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, RP-P-1916-397.





  16. 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.



  17. Two views of creation from Willem Goeree, Voor-Bereidselen tot de Bybelse Wysheid (Amsterdam, 1690). Universiteitsbibliotheek Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, XI.05177.-.
  18. Close up of plate 6.17.
  19. Close up of plate 6.17.





  20. Depiction of the earth as a lemon from Eberhard Christian Kindermann, Vollständige Astronomie, oder: sonderbare Betrachtungen derer vornehmsten an dem Fimament befinden (Rudolfstadt, 1744). ETH Bibliothek Zürich.





  21. Plates 8 and 17 from Thomas Wright’s An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe (London, 1750). The Internet Archive/Getty Research Institute.







  22. Depiction of the universe from Bernard de Fontenelle’s Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes (Paris, 1686). Source gallica.bnf.fr / BnF.





  23. First 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.





  24. 3rd and 5th 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.







  25. 7th 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.