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Tabula geographico-hydrographica motus oceani, currentes, abyssos, montes ignivomos in universo orbe indicans, notat haec fig. abyssos montes vulcanios
€450 - €600

This extraordinary first edition engraving is from Athanasius Kirchir's Mundus Subterraneus, in XII libros digestus, quo divinum subterrestris mundi opificium, mira ergasteriorum naturae in eo distributio [...] The work was published by J. Janssonius & Elizeum Weyerstraten in 1665 in Amsterdam.

This work was based off Kircher's visit to Sicily in 1637-8 when Etna and Stromboli both erupted. This observation led him to conclude that the earth's center as a massive internal fire and that volcanoes acted as safety valves. His work speculated on geology, hidden lakes, rivers of fire, strange inhabitants, the sun, the moon, eclipses, currents, meteorology, medicines, poisons, and even fireworks. The work must always command a high place in the literature as the first effort to describe the earth from a physical standpoint. (Zittel, p. 25)

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