Athanasii Kircheri ... Mundus subterraneus : in XII libros digestus
Athanasius Kircher's Mundus subterraneus, published in 1664 in Amsterdam by Jansson and Weyerstraet, is a seventeenth-century Latin natural philosophy treatise on the earth's interior, written for scholars and natural philosophers. Its woodcut diagrams are schematic and austere: a banded globe with lettered rings, a map of trade winds across the ocean, a geometric circle divided into sectors, and a cutaway of mountains and underground channels, offering designers clear line-based models for scientific, cartographic or geological motifs.
