Illustration from third edition of Athanasius Kircher's Mundus Subterraneus, a two-volume tome of atlas-like dimensions, which was intended to lay out “before the eyes of the curious reader all that is rare, exotic, and portentous contained in the fecund womb of Nature.”.
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Subterranean Fires
Artist
Date
1678
From
Mundus Subterraneus
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