Francis Bacon on verticity and the bowels of the Earth / by Graham Rees.
Abstract:
Bacon's concept of the Earth's interior and short-lived attempts to explain verticity typify certain tendencies within his speculative philosophy. Once he had established the basic outlines of his system, he tried to consolidate it by demonstrating its capacity to absorb a wide range of empirical data
Ambix Vol. 26 (1979), p. 202-211