[Plan of a stone labyrinth]

Olof Rudbeck, Atlantica, atlas volume, plate 35, figure 134 (1679)

The Swedish polymath Olof Rudbeck (1630–1702) worked from the 1670s until his death to prove that Sweden was the first civilized nation, and that his home town Uppsala was the site of Plato’s Atlantis. He expounded his theories in his book Atlantica, which grew to 4 large volumes plus an atlas. This illustration of a stone labyrinth is taken from the atlas volume, plate 35, figure 134. So far, I have not been able to discover any corresponding text. The 1863 reprint of volume 4 (available on Google Books) contains a table of references from figures to text, but for some figures, including this one, the entry is blank.

The figure below was scanned from the 1938 reprint of Atlantica. There is a production error in the original: although the figure number is right way up, the labels 1 to 9 are upside down.

Stone labyrinth from Olof Rudbeck’s Atlantica (1679)