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 1684 London treatise on the origin and future changes of the earth, printed by R. Norton for W. Kettilby, aimed at a learned English readership interested in natural philosophy and scripture. The engraved plates are geometric diagrams of spherical bodies: the chaos rendered as a dense tangle of curling lines, a ringed sphere with a dark central hole, and split globes showing internal cross-sections. A designer could take the swirling tangled linework and concentric ring structures as texture and pattern studies.
