Stories of a Hollow Earth. In 1741 the Norwegian-Danish author Ludvig Holberg published Klimii Iter Subterraneum, a satirical science-fiction/fantasy novel detailing the adventures of its hero Niels Klim in a utopian society existing beneath the surface of the earth.
Peter Fitting, author of Subterranean Worlds: A Critical Anthology, explores Holberg’s book in the wider context of the hollow earth theory. In 1818 John Cleves Symmes, Jr, issued his “Circular Number 1,” sending copies to “each notable foreign government, reigning prince, legislature, city, college, and philosophical society, quite around the earth”: 1940s children’s books: peeps into the past. Children’s Literature: A Very Short Introduction By Kimberley Reynolds Come In by Olive Dehn.
The Book on the Bookshelf (9780375406492): Henry Petroski. In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World (9780465029730): Ian Stewart. Redirect Notice. Gerald Graff, Ph.D. Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness (Jean Nicod Lectures) (9780262541916): Daniel C. Dennett. The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us (9781608194803): James W. Pennebaker. The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature: Steven Pinker: 9780143114246: Englische Bücher. Orlando: A Biography (Vintage Classics): Virginia Woolf: 9780099478287: Englische Bücher.