Written Edna Baldwin Kenton, 1876-1954. - Punlished in 1928.
The book is filled with the drawings and stories of earth. Origin stories or formation, beliefs about size, shape, density, and beliefs of the inhapitants on this earth. A lovely old book.
In her own words the author tells us the book...
" would not be limited to what we know about the Earth, else it would have ended before it began; for we live in a universe of which we know little, and on a planet of which we know perhaps less. It would include not only what we know, or think today we know, but also anything that has been believed or felt or no more than "guessed" to be the picture of the Earth and its place in the universe. It would include not only science, modern and ancient, but tradition, the older the better; diagrams or pictures based on little more than folk-lore; cosmogonies of religions great and small; cosmogonies of philosophers, of poets, and of savages. It would gather together pictured theories, guesses, hypotheses, or merely flights of pure imagination, whether "true" or "false" today; since history teaches us nothing if it does not teach us that one century's false doctrine is another century's truth, and
that the mistakes of any age or race are quite as illuminating as any "truth" by which it lived."
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