Illustration found in Athanasius Kircher's Mundus Subterraneus (1665), a book detailing his theories about life beneath the Earth's crust. With his enormous range of scholarly pursuits the 17th-century polymath Athanasius Kircher has been hailed as the last Renaissance man and "the master of hundred arts".
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Mount Etna
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1665
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