The theory of the earth : containing an account of the original of the earth, and of all the general changes which it hath already undergone, or is to undergo till the consummation of all things. The two first books concerning the deluge, and concerning paradise
Thomas Burnet's The Theory of the Earth, printed in London in 1697 by Roger Norton for the bookseller Walter Kettilby, is a work of speculative natural philosophy on the earth's origin and future, aimed at learned readers. Its single plate, set within a dense printed page, shows three numbered diagrams: a cross-section of concentric arcs, and two spherical globes drawn in fine hatched shading, one with a central band and one with ragged surface markings, which suggest geological cutaways a designer could adapt for scientific or cosmic motifs.
