Diagram of a hollow Earth

Diagram of a hollow Earth

Cosmogony -- Early works to 1800.

This diagram illustrates Thomas Burnet's theory that the lack of sufficient surface water to account for Noah's flood could be explained if the Earth were hollow.

Burnet, Thomas

Theory of the earth : containing an account of the original of the earth, and of all the general changes which it hath undergone, or is to undergo till the consummation of all things.

London : Printed by R[oger]. N[orton]. for Walter Kettilby, at the Bishop's-Head in S. Paul's Church-Yard.

1697

Public Domain

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