A. Kircher: Mundus Subterraneus

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The Subterranean World (1664)

by Athanasius Kircher, S.J. (1601/2?-1680)

translation by Wm. Parcell

 

 

 

 
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Volume I

Dedication, Preface and Index

Book 1: Elementary Geometry and Physico-mathematics (Centrographicus)

Book 2: The creation of the terrestrial globe.

Book 3: Hydrography

Book 4: Pyrologus: about fire

Book 5: Origin of lakes, fountains and rivers

Book 6: The fourth element we call Earth, its products and first fruits of the Subterranean world

Book 7: Nature, properties and uses of minerals or fossils, which properly look like terrestrial elements and the rotations and the periciclosis which are produced by their motion

 

 

 
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Volume II

Dedication and Index

Book 8: The stony substance of the Earth Of the Bones, Horns, and Fossils, and also of Underground Animals, Humans, and Demons. 

Book 9: Poisonous and Lethiferous Fruits of the Underground World

Book 10: The requirements of the Metallic Art and the creation of mines 

Book 11: Chemical Apparatus of the Earth

Book 12: Panspermia

 

 

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