Kings of the (hollow) world Annals of outlandish theories

From: International Herald Tribune | Date: July 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Umberto Eco
International Herald Tribune
07-22-2006
There are two Hollow Earth theories. According to the first one we live on the crust, but there is another world on the inside where lies, some say, the realm of Agartha, the home of the King of the World (see, for example, the fantasies of French philosopher Rene Guenon).The second theory has it that while we think we live on the outer crust, we actually live in the interior (on a convex surface instead of a concave one).One of the first Hollow Earth theories was proposed in 1692 by English astronomer Edmund Halley (he who discovered the ...

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