THE SACRED THEORY OF THE EARTH: CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGINAL OF THE EARTH, AND OF ALL THE GENERAL CHANGES WHICH IT HATH UNDERGONE, OR IS TO UNDERGO, UNTIL THE CONSUMMATION OF ALL THINGS
Book Details + Condition: T. Osborne, C. Hitch, and L. Hawes, et al. (London). Seventh Edition, 1759. 532 pages. Hardcover, full leather. Spine is embossed with gilt lettering and raised bands. Volume II of English theologian Thomas Burnet's (b. ~1635) theory of cosmogony, including propositions of a hollow Earth with water inside. The book is subtitled "The two last books, concerning the general conflagration and the new Heaven and new Earth." Burnet's cosmogony is distinctly Christian in nature. An overall firm and clean copy, with tight binding (front appears re-attached, common with this age of leather binding); rubbing and light wear to leather boards; minor chipping to spine ends; bookplate to inside front board; interior is clean and free of markings.
