![](http://www.alamy.com/thumbs/6/E2584AC1-D9B1-48C8-8BC3-CF16C058D2D2/2ACJ7HY.jpg)
1731 Copperplate print of alpine geology and recurved strata as evidence of the catastrophe of Noah's Flood. Print is from Johann Jakob Scheuchzer 's
1731 Copperplate print of alpine geology and recurved strata as evidence of the catastrophe of Noah's Flood. Print is from Johann Jakob Scheuchzer 's (born August 2nd 1672 - died June 23rd 1733) Physica Sacra (1731). The book was a scientifically illustrated Biblical History. In it and his earlier Lithographia helveticae, he states fossils as evidences of the Biblical flood. Notoriously he illustrated Homo Diluvii testis as a human victim of the flood. The fossil was only identified correctly as a giant Salamander by Cuvier in 1811.
Size: 3413px × 5120px
Photo credit: © PAUL D STEWART/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: alps, artwork, bible, biblical, black, black--white, catastrophism, creationism, creationist, cuvier, diluvian, diluvianism, diluvii, early, flood, geologist, geology, giant, helvetica, history, homo, illustration, lithographia, misidentification, monochrome, noahs, palaeontological, palaeontology, paleontologist, paleontology, physica, sacra, salamander, scheuchzer, science, strata, stratigraphy, white