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The Sacred Theory of the Earth
by Thomas Burnet
[1691]
Theory of the Earth
by James Hutton
[1788 and 1795]
The Darwin of Geology.
Paradise Found
by William F. Warren
[1885]
The antediluvian Polar Eden.
Flat, Hollow or Inside-Out?
One of the oldest earth mysteries was 'what shape is it?'
Eratosthenes, in 240 BC, was able to prove the sphericity
of the earth and estimate its size to a reasonable margin of error,
by comparing the angle of the sun at two distant locations simultaneously.
Aristotle knew that the earth was spherical, citing the horizon,
the Earth's circular shadow during lunar eclipses, and other phenomena.
Many educated people knew about the spherical earth from
late antiquity on.
However, most Europeans believed that the earth was flat until the explorations
of the renaissance.
The Biblical concept of an earth with four corners
(e.g. Isa 11:12)
was taken very literally.
Note that the word used here, kanaf,
is a word used for corners of buildings, cloth, bedsheets, and so on.
To confuse matters somewhat, the earth is also described in Isaiah as
being circular (Isa 40:22),
specifically it says the circle of the earth.
Some modern inerrantists point to this as 'evidence' that the earth is round,
although Isaiah seems to imply that it is disk-shaped here.
The Hebrew word used here is khug,
which unambiguously means circle, not sphere.
It is related to a root khagag,
which means to dance in a circle, or a sacred procession which moves
in a circle.
Square? Circular? it's enough to make your head spin...
In the late 19th century a number of alternative theories
of the shape of the earth were proposed,
flat, hollow and inside-out.
By the time the poles had been reached in the early
20th century, the time for these theories had passed.
Today, some Biblical inerrantists still believe that the Earth is flat.
General
The Book of Earths
by Edna Kenton [1928]
A survey of the theory of the shape (and nature) of the Earth, lavishly illustrated. A great introduction to the subject.
The Earth is Flat
Christian Topography
by Cosmas Indiopleustes,
translated by J. W. McCrindle [1897]
He was sure that the universe resembled the interior of a pirate chest, with a flat Earth.
Zetetic Astronomy: Earth Not a Globe
(3rd ed.) by Parallax [Pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham] [1881]
A tireless 19th century flat-Earther's masterwork.
The Earth is Hollow
Symzonia; Voyage of Discovery
by Adam Seaborn, (pseud. John Cleves Symmes?) [1820]
One of the rarest Hollow Earth books: a perilous sea journey to a utopian society in the inner earth.
Journey to the Center of the Earth
by Jules Verne, tr. by Frederick Amadeus Malleson [1877]
The classic science fiction tale of a subterranean journey down to a world teeming with prehistoric beasts.
Etidorhpa
by John Uri Lloyd (8th ed.) [1897]
Doomed by the Illuminati to journey to the center of the hollow earth in a quest for the Goddess of Love.
The Smoky God
by Willis George Emerson [1908]
A novel of the hollow earth, and the race of giants within.
The Phantom of the Poles
by William Reed [1909]
Strange polar phenomena, and the Hollow Earth
At the Earth's Core
by Edgar Rice Burroughs [1914]
A Hollow Earth fantasy where humans are very low on the food chain.
Pellucidar
by Edgar Rice Burroughs [1915]
The first of several Pellucidar sequels, the conclusion to 'At the Earth's Core.'
A Journey to the Earth's Interior
by Marshall B. Gardner (2nd ed.) [1920]
The Hollow Earth in depth.
The Earth is Inside-Out
The Cellular Cosmogony
by Koresh [Pseud. Cyrus Reed Teed] [1922]
We are inside the Hollow Earth!
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