Symmes's theory of concentric spheres
demonstrating that the earth is hollow, habitable within, and widely open about the poles
by McBride, James
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Author James McBride presents John Cleve Symmes theory that the earth is constructed of a series of hollow shells and that it has large openings near the poles. The work was presented as science in a series of lectures in the 1820s and was met with humor, sarcasm, outright denouncement, and a few true believers. The work has value today primarily as a cautionary tale of how science based on too few facts and too much speculation, without peer review, can go far wrong. The work has been borrowed from to create plot lines for numerous science-fiction books and films featuring humans or strange species living inside the earth.
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Symmes's theory of concentric spheres: demonstrating that the earth is hollow, habitable within, and widely open about the poles
1826, Morgan, Lodge and Fisher
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Written by James McBride, "under the direction and with the revision of Captain Symmes." See McBride's Pioneer biography, v. 2, p.243
"A short biographical sketch of Captain Symmes": p. 157-168
Thomson, P.G. Ohio, 740
LCCN 48032583 finds no entry in the Library of Congress catalog. This entry can be traced by Google to the Linda Hall Library of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
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