Thomas Burnet - fig 3 to Sacred Theory of the Earth
1684
- Title
- Thomas Burnet - fig 3 to Sacred Theory of the Earth
- Collection
- Caltech Images Collection
- Series
- Rare Book Photographs
- Identifier
- RB-TB1684-4
- Dates
- 1684
- Extents
- 1 photographs (negative)
- Abstract
- Burnet’s “general idea” of the primeval Earth: “Because it pleaseth more, and makes a greater impression on us, to see things represented to the Eye, than to read their description in words, we have ventur’d to give a model of the Primaeval Earth, with its Zones or greater Climates, and the general order and tracts of its Rivers ...”