Earth Mysteries

700 pages

• A Journey to the Earth's Interior Index

  | | A Journey to the Earth's Interior by Marshall B. Gardner [1920] | Marshall B. Gardner, a hollow-earth proponent, published the first…

• A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Bibliography

  Only the principal works consulted and found to contain valid contributions to the solution of the problem of the earth's interior. BALL…

• A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter I. Introductory

  An author who puts forth a new idea must expect to meet with opposition and be ready to defend his idea vigorously. He knows that the great…

• A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter II. The Nebula...

  Probably the most important concept in the whole realm of astronomy is that of the nebula; for it was only when the idea of the nebula as…

• A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter III. Mars

  If the theory as outlined were correct it ought to be possible to make it more and more probable and at last prove it without a shadow of a…

• A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter IV. Early Polar Exploration

  One of the most prominent writers in England, a man, too, who had had a scientific education, was given a sketch of the main arguments in…

• A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter IX. Was the North Pole Discovered?

  Some people have said that they would consider our theory triumphantly demonstrated if it were not for the fact that the North Pole had…

• A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter V. Further Arc...

  Arctic Exploration in the nineteenth century opened out with the brilliant expeditions of Sir John Franklin, beginning in 1818, and when he…

• A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter VI. Greely's E...

  We now come to the many and valuable observations made by General A. W. Greely, who as a young lieutenant in 1881 began his "Three Years of…

• A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter VII. Nordenskiold's Voyages

  The next Arctic explorer whom we shall follow in his voyages is Adolf Erik Nordenskiold whose experiences in the Arctic extended over…

• A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter VII. With Nans...

  Nothing can illustrate better how really ignorant the scientists have been concerning the real constitution of the polar regions than the…

• A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter X. Two Congres...

  To back up what we have just said of the claims of Messrs. Peary and Cook to have discovered the poles, let us briefly quote from two…

• A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter XI. The Mammoth

  This is not the longest chapter in this book, but to anyone who wishes to prove our theory "in a hurry" it may be commended, for it brings…

• A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter XII. The Life ...

  In describing the voyages of different explorers we have spoken more than once of their observations of living creatures in the Arctic and…

• A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter XIII. Other Interesting Animals of the Interior

  The mammoth and mastodon, while giving us our chief evidence that there is habitable land within the interior of the globe, are not the…

• A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter XIV. The Aurora

  Every reader of this book has heard of the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, and the Aurora Australis, or Southern Lights. Some readers…

• A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter XIX. How Our T...

  Some very unintelligent readers have accused us of putting forward a theory that is not new but merely a rehash of Symmes theory of…

• A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter XV. The Eskimo

  Throughout this book there have been many references to the Eskimos who live nearer to the north polar orifice of the earth than any other…

• A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter XVI. Evidence ...

  The Antarctic has not been so thoroughly explored as the Arctic polar region, and so our evidence from that end of the globe is not so…

• A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter XVII. The Journey to the Earth's Interior

  Having actually established the facts in the case we shall, in this chapter, use those facts in an imaginative and constructive way to show…

• A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter XVIII. The For...

  We shall now proceed to explain the shape and the formation of the earth which has resulted from the evolution of our planet from the…

• A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter XX. The Moon And Our Theory

  How on our theory do we account for the moon and what do we claim to be its structure? We may answer those questions wholly in the words of…

• A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter XXI. A Note on...

  It has been objected against our theory that the weight of the earth is known and that it is much heavier than would be the case if it were…

• A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter XXII. How Our Theory Has Been Received

  Before telling about the actual reception which greeted our theory when it was first propounded we wish to lay stress upon one particular…

• A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter XXIII. Our Controversy with Dominian

  One of the first newspapers to recognize the importance of our contribution to the world's knowledge was the Pittsburgh Leader. In their…

• A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter XXIV. Our Country and Our Theory

  We have opened the road to a new world in our theory and it must be a world of inconceivable richness. When we think of the untapped…

• A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Chapter XXV. In Conclusion

  We have now stated a theory of the constitution of the earth and of all the other planets, and this theory seems to account for every fact…

• A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Contents

  ___________________________ CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY A New Idea and a plea for its fair hearing.--The trained scientist and the average…

• A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Errata

  page 8: 'occurence'->'occurrence' page 12: 'similiarity'->'similarity' page 17: 'cosmongy'->'cosmogony' page 18: 'tendancies'->'tendencies'…

• A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Illustrations
• A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Preface

  THE MAN whose acquaintance with cosmogony and physiography is confined to what he learned in school, and, perhaps, afterward read in…

• A Journey to the Earth's Interior: Title Page

  Revised and Enlarged Profusely Illustrated Scanned, June 2005. Proofed and formatted by John Bruno Hare. This text is in the public domain…

• A Miracle in Stone: The Great Pyramid Index

  | The Great Pyramid (circa 1893) [Public Domain Image] | A Miracle in Stone: or, The Great Pyramid of Egypt by Joseph A. Seiss [1877] |…

• A Miracle in Stone: The Great Pyramid: Appendix

  As a sequel to the preceding lectures, it may be proper, and may give satisfaction to many readers, to present the opinions and statements…

• A Miracle in Stone: The Great Pyramid: Contents
• A Miracle in Stone: The Great Pyramid: Lecture First. Gen...

  all the rest of the world—the Japan of the ages—it still lies at the gateway of the traditions of Judea, Greece and Rome; intermingles with…

• A Miracle in Stone: The Great Pyramid: Lecture Second. Mo...

  A learned and able historical critic and lecturer recently stated to his audience in this city that what is thus claimed for the Great…

• A Miracle in Stone: The Great Pyramid: Lecture Third. Ana...

  "And I heard a loud voice saying in Heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ…

• A Miracle in Stone: The Great Pyramid: Plate: The Great P...

  Click to enlarge The Great Pyramid Click to enlarge Detail of The Great Pyramid A, A, A, A, Corner sockets of the Pyramid's base. B, B, B…

• A Miracle in Stone: The Great Pyramid: Preface

  THIS book is meant to give a succinct comprehensive account of the oldest and greatest existing monument of intellectual man, particularly…

• A Miracle in Stone: The Great Pyramid: Quotes

  "EVERY student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that he has…

• A Miracle in Stone: The Great Pyramid: Title Page

  Scanned, proofed and formatted, September 2006, by John Bruno Hare. This text is in the public domain in the United States because it was…

• Architecture, Mysticism and Myth Index

  | | Architecture, Mysticism and Myth by W.R. Lethaby [1892] | This delightful book describes the symbolism of real-world architecture, as…

• Architecture, Mysticism and Myth: Chapter I. The World Fa...

  | 'Tales of ages long forgotten Now the legends of creation Once familiar to the children.'—KALEVALA. | IF we erase from the mind…

• Architecture, Mysticism and Myth: Chapter II. The Microco...

  | 'The altar cell was a dome low-lit, And a veil hung in the midst of it; At the pole points of its circling girth Four symbols stood of…

• Architecture, Mysticism and Myth: Chapter III. Four Square

  | 'A tower of strength that stood Four square to all the winds that blow.' —TENNYSON. | THE perfect temple should stand at the centre of…

• Architecture, Mysticism and Myth: Chapter IV. At the Cent...
• Architecture, Mysticism and Myth: Chapter IX. Pavements L...
• Architecture, Mysticism and Myth: Chapter V. The Jewel-Be...

  | 'Impious! the trees of vegetable gold Such as in Eden's groves Yet innocent it grew; Impious! he made his boast, though Heaven had hid So…

• Architecture, Mysticism and Myth: Chapter VI. The Planeta...

  | 'And after skewed hym the nyne spheris And after that the melodye herd he, That cometh of thilke speris thries thre; That welleys of…

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