MUNDUS SUBTERRANEUS Athanasius Kircher

“Athanasius Kircher’s cross-sectioned cosmic shows our planet as a living organism, with a molten heart pumping energy through fiery subterranean arteries. Not content with mere theorizing, this daring Jesuit polymath actually descended into Vesuvius’s smoking crater, encountering what he called ‘the habitation of Hell’, with ‘horrible bellowings and roarings’. He was an adventurous spirit who may have later inspired Jules Verne’s fictional professor in Journey to the Center of the Earth!”

Vetiver, ash, molten copper, smoked labdanum, golden frankincense, and dragon's blood resin over a core of iron.