Biblical cosmogony

A single oil lamp in a niche cast flickering light around the entire biblical cosmogony, and on the chipped fresco at the back a mass of faces was permanently twisted into the tormented screams of the damned.

Cantemir authored a textbook of logic and a treatise of "theologo-physics", Sacrosanctae scientiae indepingibilis imago (1700) which, besides discussing the nature of time, and the problem of the universals, tries to justify Biblical cosmogony with non-theological arguments drawing on the philosophy of Jan Baptist van Helmont.