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

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

• 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)

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

• 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)

• 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

• 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)

• The Discovery of a World in the Moone: or, A Discourse Tending to Prove, That 'tis Probable There May be Another Habitable World in That Planet (London: Printed by E. G. for Michael Sparke and Edward Forrest, 1638), by John Wilkins
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF at gasl.org
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Plutarch on the Face Which Appears on the Orb of the Moon (Winchester: Warren and Son; London: Simpkin and Co., 1911), by Plutarch, ed. by A. O. Prickard (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Selenarkia, or, The Government of the World in the Moon: A Comical History (London: Printed by J. Cottrel, 1659), by Cyrano de Bergerac, trans. by Thomas St. Serfe
  • page images at Harvard
  • HTML at Oxford
  • HTML at Michigan

• Buffon's Natural History: Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c. (10 volumes; 1797 and 1807), by Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon, trans. by James Smith Barr (multiple formats at HathiTrust, archive.org, and Gutenberg)