麻豆破解版

The Subterranean World (1664)

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

translation by Wm. Parcell

 

Table of Contents

Volume 1

Volume 1: Dedication, Preface and Index

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

Book 2: On 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 fosils, which properly look like terrestrial elements and the rotations and the periciclosis which are produced by their motion

Volume 2

Volume 2: Dedication and Index

Book 8: Of Stones in general

Book 9: On the Poisonous and Lethiferous Fruits of the Underground World

Book 10: Metallurgy and Metallic Arts

Book 11: Chemical Apparatus of the Earth

Book 12: Panspermia


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