Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae
Also known as The Great Art of Light and Shadow, this book is the first published description in Europe of the illumination and projection of images, an illustration of Saturn, and many other aspects of light, sun, moon, stars, comets, optical illusions, phosphorescence, sundials, and more. Kircher...
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Format: | Online |
Language: | Italian |
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Scheus, Hermann, active 1638-1646
1646
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Online Access: | http://cdm15129.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p264101coll7/id/14743 |
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Summary: | Also known as The Great Art of Light and Shadow, this book is the first published description in Europe of the illumination and projection of images, an illustration of Saturn, and many other aspects of light, sun, moon, stars, comets, optical illusions, phosphorescence, sundials, and more.
Kircher, a Jesuit scholar, organized this work into 10 parts, symbolically representing the psalmist's ten stringed instrument in Psalm 143, as well as the ten emanations of the Sefirot in Kabbalah. |
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