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• Earth (Planet) -- Origin -- Early works to 1800
• Moon -- Origin

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• Origin and Evolution of Earth: Research Questions for a Changing Planet (2008), by National Research Council Board on Earth Sciences and Resources (illustrated HTML and page images with commentary at NAP)
• Relics from the Wreck of a Former World: or, Splinters Gathered on the Shores of a Turbulent Planet (published anonymously, but "deduced" from works by Milner and Mantell; New York: W. H. Graham et al., 1847), contrib. by Thomas Milner and Gideon Algernon Mantell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• La Religion en Face de la Science (2 volumes in 3, in French; 1881-1883), by Alexis Arduin (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Examination of Dr. Burnet's Theory of the Earth, Together With Some Remarks on Mr. Whiston's New Theory of the Earth (1698), by John Keill (page images and HTML at chlt.org)

• Origin of the Moon (Houston: Lunar & Planetary Institute, c1986), ed. by William K. Hartmann, R. J. Phillips, and G. Jeffrey Taylor
  • page images at Harvard
  • PDF at USRA Houston Repository

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Theory of the Earth (Boston: Blackwell Scientific Publications, c1989), by Don L. Anderson (PDF files at Caltech)
• The Holy Earth, by L. H. Bailey (HTML at LOC)
• The Phantom of the Poles (New York: Walter S. Rocky, 1906), by William Reed (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• A New Look at an Old Earth (online edition, c1997), by Don Stoner (HTML at answers.org)

• Deep Carbon: Past to Present (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2020), ed. by Beth Orcutt, Isabelle Daniel, and Rajdeep Dasgupta (HTML and PDF files at Cambridge University Press)
• The Role of Fluids in Crustal Processes (1990), by National Research Council Geophysics Study Committee (page images with commentary at NAP)
• North American Continent-Ocean Transects Program, by National Research Council Board on Earth Sciences and Resources (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Sacred Theory of the Earth (first edition, 1684), by Thomas Burnet (page images and HTML at chlt.org)
• A Review of The Theory of the Earth and of Its Proofs, Especially in Reference to Scripture (London: Printed by R. Norton for W. Kettilby, 1690), by Thomas Burnet (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A History of the Mathematical Theories of Attraction and the Figure of the Earth from the Time of Newton to That of Laplace, by I. Todhunter
  • volume 1: page images at Cornell
  • volume 2: page images at Cornell

• Origin and Evolution of Earth: Research Questions for a Changing Planet (2008), by National Research Council Board on Earth Sciences and Resources (illustrated HTML and page images with commentary at NAP)

• Our Enclosed World: Being Extracts From Lectures (Worthing: The author, ca. 1915), by Elizabeth Anne Mould de Sodington Blount (multiple formats at archve.org)

• The Hollow Earth (New York: Broadway Pub. Co., c1904), by F. T. Ives (page images at HathiTrust)
• Strength and Structure of the Earth (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1940), by Reginald Aldworth Daly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Symmes's Theory of Concentric Spheres: Demonstrating That the Earth is Hollow, Habitable Within, and Widely Open About the Poles (Cincinnati: Morgan, Lodge, and Fisher, 1826), by James McBride and John Cleves Symmes (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Deep Carbon: Past to Present (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2020), ed. by Beth Orcutt, Isabelle Daniel, and Rajdeep Dasgupta (HTML and PDF files at Cambridge University Press)

• The Cellular Cosmogony: or, The Earth a Concave Sphere (Estero, FL: Guiding Star Publishing House, 1922), by Koresh (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The New Manual of Biblical Cosmography: or, Outline of the General System of the Universe (London: Beaumont and Co.; et al., 1877), by John Hampden (page images at HathiTrust)
• One Hundred Proofs That the Earth is Not a Globe (Baltimore: The author, 1885), by William Carpenter (Gutenberg text)
• Our Enclosed World: Being Extracts From Lectures (Worthing: The author, ca. 1915), by Elizabeth Anne Mould de Sodington Blount (multiple formats at archve.org)
• Symmes's Theory of Concentric Spheres: Demonstrating That the Earth is Hollow, Habitable Within, and Widely Open About the Poles (Cincinnati: Morgan, Lodge, and Fisher, 1826), by James McBride and John Cleves Symmes (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Terra Firma: The Earth Not a Planet, Proved From Scripture, Reason and Fact (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, and Co.; et al, 1901), by David Wardlaw Scott (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Zetetic Astronomy: Earth Not a Globe (third edition, 1881), by Parallax (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Zetetic Cosmogony: or, Conclusive Evidence that the World is Not a Rotating-Revolving-Globe, but a Stationary Plane Circle (second edition; Durban, Natal: T. L. Cullingworth, 1899), by Thomas Winship
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Hollow Globe, or, The World's Agitator and Reconciler: A Treatise on the Physical Conformation of the Earth (Chicago: Religio-Philosophical Publishing House, 1871), by M. L. Sherman and William F. Lyon
  • page images at MOA
  • page images at Google
• A Journey to the Earth's Interior: or, Have the Poles Really Been Discovered (Aurora, IL: The author, 1913), by Marshall B. Gardner (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Journey to the Earth's Interior: or, Have the Poles Really Been Discovered (second edition, 1920), by Marshall B. Gardner (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Earth, Planets and Space (full serial archives)

• Earth at Night (2019), by United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (multiple formats with commentary at nasa.gov)
• Apollo Image Atlas (c2005), by Project Apollo (U.S.) and Lunar and Planetary Institute (multimedia at usra.edu)

• Earth as Art (Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2012), ed. by Lawrence Friedl (PDF with commentary at NASA)

• Plato's Doctrine Respecting the Rotation of the Earth, and Aristotle's Comment Upon That Doctrine (London: J. Murray, 1860), by George Grote (Gutenberg text)

• Natural Aerodynamics (New York et al.: Pergamon Press, c1958), by R. S. Scorer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Skylab's Astronomy and Space Sciences, ed. by Charles A. Lundquist (illustrated HTML at NASA)

• Geodesy in the Year 2000 (1990), by National Research Council Committee on Geodesy (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Geodesy for the Layman (4th revision, 1984), by Richard K. Burkard (illustrated HTML at nga.mil)
• A Treatise on the Adjustment of Observations, by T. W. Wright (page images at Cornell)
• Das Rückwärtseinschneiden im Raum (dissertation in German; Zürich: A.-G. Gebr. Leemann und Co., 1933), by Gustav Volkart (PDF at ETH Zurich)

• A Radically Modern Approach to Introductory Physics (2 volumes; 2011-2015), by David J. Raymond (illustrated HTML with commentary at nmt.edu)

• A Flight to the Moon: or, The Vision of Randalthus (Baltimore: A. Miltenberger, 1813), by George Fowler (page images at Google)
• Wonders of the Moon (New York: Scribner, Armstrong and Co., 1873), by Amédée Guillemin, ed. by Maria Mitchell, trans. by M. G. Mead (page images at HathiTrust)
• To the Moon and Back in Ninety Days: A Thrilling Narrative of Blended Science and Adventure (Providence, KY: Lunar Pub. Co., 1922), by John Young Brown (page images at HathiTrust)

• Aerospace Power in the Twenty-First Century: A Basic Primer (2001), by Clayton K. S. Chun
  • PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Beyond Horizons: A Half Century of Air Force Space Leadership (1998), ed. by David N. Spires (PDF files at af.mil)
• Beyond the Paths of Heaven: The Emergence of Space Power Thought (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1999), ed. by Bruce M. DeBlois (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)

• The Control of the Tropics (New York: Macmillan, 1898), by Benjamin Kidd (multiple formats at archive.org)

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