{"id":369,"date":"2011-01-18T01:00:36","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T06:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/?p=369"},"modified":"2023-07-07T16:30:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T16:30:12","slug":"1872","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/01\/18\/1872\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 12 &#8211; 1872: The Subterranean World by George Hartwig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/01\/18\/1872\/1872_cave\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-371\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-371 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/01\/1872_cave-189x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/01\/1872_cave-189x300.jpg 189w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/01\/1872_cave-645x1024.jpg 645w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/01\/1872_cave-768x1219.jpg 768w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/01\/1872_cave-624x990.jpg 624w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/01\/1872_cave.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/><\/a>Published: London, 1872<\/p>\n<p>Touching on everything from seismic activity to subterranean life, Dr. Hartwig\u2019s account of the world beneath our feet was popular enough to warrant publication of several editions. Who, indeed, could resist his inspiring prose? \u00a0\u201cThere lie concealed the mysterious laboratories of fire,\u201d the author writes of the underground, intending \u201cto describe the wonders of this hidden world in their various relations to man, now raising him to wealth, and now dooming him to destruction.\u201d \u00a0For those seeking a <a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/01\/18\/1872\/1872_flood\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-372\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-372 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/01\/1872_flood-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/01\/1872_flood-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/01\/1872_flood-1024x675.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/01\/1872_flood-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/01\/1872_flood-624x411.jpg 624w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/01\/1872_flood.jpg 1315w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>sometimes sensational account of the subterranean world\u2014and for those who couldn\u2019t afford the hefty \u00a37.00 price tag of Jules Verne\u2019s <em>A Journey to the Centre of the Earth<\/em>, published in London the year before\u2014this book must have been just the ticket.<\/p>\n<p>Our copy came to the MIT Libraries by way of Theodore Newton Vail, who in 1912 purchased the library of George Edward Dering, a prolific (and eccentric) British inventor and electrical engineer. \u00a0Vail had been president of AT&amp;T and was a member of the MIT Corporation, and he donated the entire collection to the Institute. Thanks to a generous gift from Thomas F. Peterson (\u201857), a project is currently underway to create online catalog records for the thousands of items that comprise what is now known as the Vail Collection.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/01\/18\/1872\/1872_map\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-374\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-374 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/01\/1872_map-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/01\/18\/1872\/1872_title\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-375\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-375 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/01\/1872_title-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/01\/18\/1872\/1872_front_1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-373\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-373 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/01\/1872_front_1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mit.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01MIT_INST\/jp08pj\/alma990017375610106761\">Find it in the library<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published: London, 1872 Touching on everything from seismic activity to subterranean life, Dr. Hartwig\u2019s account of the world beneath our feet was popular enough to warrant publication of several editions. Who, indeed, could resist his inspiring prose? \u00a0\u201cThere lie concealed the mysterious laboratories of fire,\u201d the author writes of the underground, intending \u201cto describe the wonders of this hidden world in their various relations to man, now raising him to wealth, and now dooming him to destruction.\u201d \u00a0For those seeking a sometimes sensational account of the subterranean world\u2014and for those who couldn\u2019t afford the hefty \u00a37.00 price tag of Jules [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":false,"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4198,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/4198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}