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A red cartouche held by two winged cherubs carries the Latin title at the top, and five lines of Latin run across the foot.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAthanasius Kircher included this plate in Mundus subterraneus, first published in 1665; the Boston Public Library dates this impression [1668?] and credits the Amsterdam edition of Joannes Janssonius and Elizeus Weyerstraten. It shows all the Earth's waters linked by underground channels, fed by ocean whirlpools and tapped by mountain springs, with a ball of fire at the centre that Kircher suggested drives lava and water upward.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe original: hand-coloured engraving, 33 x 41 cm, from Mundus subterraneus (Amsterdam: Joannes Janssonius and Elizeus Weyerstraten, [1668?]), Boston Public Library, Norman B. Leventhal Map \u0026amp; Education Center.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAthanasius Kircher (born 1601 or 1602 in Geisa, near Fulda; died 1680) was a German Jesuit scholar who published around forty major works on subjects including comparative religion, geology and medicine. From 1634 he taught mathematics, physics and Oriental languages at the Collegio Romano in Rome, where he built a cabinet of curiosities that became the Kircherian Museum. His geological work included studies of volcanoes, and his Mundus subterraneus appeared in 1665. Many of his ideas proved wrong, notably his claimed decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs, but he correctly linked ancient Egyptian with Coptic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrinted as a museum-grade giclée on Hahnemühle fine art paper using 12-ink archival pigment printing. Available handframed in FSC-certified wood with optional float glass, or unframed. 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