Illustration depicting cat fossils, from 'Mundus Subterraneus' by Athanasius Kircher, (1602 – 1680), German Jesuit scholar and polymath who published around 40 major works. His geological and geographical investigations culminated in his Mundus Subterraneus of 1664, in which he suggested that the tides were caused by water moving to and from a subterranean ocean

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