Anon

Engraving

1671

Double spread from Anthanasius Kircher's Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae...2d ed.(The Great Art of Light and Shadow).  Amsterdam:Published by Apud Joannem Janssonium a Waesberg & hareredes Elizaei Weyerstraet

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Anon

Engraving

Germany

1676

4 1/2" x 8"(page)

Images from two pages in Collegium Experimentale sive Curiosum(B185) by Johann Christoph Strum

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Anon

Engraving

Germany

1686

15" x 12 1/2"

Double page from Johann Zahn's Oculus Artificialis Teledioptricus sive Telescopium(B188).

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Anon

Engraving

Germany

1686

7 1/2" x 12 1/2"

A page from Johann Zahn's Oculus Artificialis Teledioptricus sive Telescopium(B188) .

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Anon

Engraving

Germany

1686

Detail: 6 1/2" x 5 1/2", page: 7 1/2" x 12 1/2"

A page from Johann Zahn's Oculus Artificialis Teledioptricus sive Telescopium (B188).

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Anon.

Pen and ink

Italy

c. 1690

4 1/2" x 6 1/2"

An unsigned manuscript  of 169 pages(B110). It includes many illustrations, of optical devices including peepshows, and a magic lantern.

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Anon

Engraving

Holland

1696

2 3/4" x 5 1/2"

A psge from La Physique occulte ou traite de la baguette divinatoire by I.L de Vallemont. Amsterdam(B58).

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Anon

Wood cut

Italy

c. 1700

Detail: 1 1/2" x  3, page: 8" x 13"

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Anon

Engraving

Germany

1704

Detail: 3 1/4" x 3 1/2", page:  3 1/4" x 6 1/4"

A page from Mathesis Juvenilis(B184) by Johann Christoph Strum.

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Monfieur Ozanam

Engraving

1708

Detail:3 1/2" x 3 7/8", page: 4 1/2" x 7 1/2"

From Recreations Mathematical and Physical(B239) by Monfieur Ozanam> Published in London.

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Anon

Engraving

Holland

1720

4" x 6 1/4"

A page from: Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid(B130). The title in english translates as: Night-Singer of Shares with his Magic-Lantern.

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Anon

Engraving

Holland

1720

14 1/4" x 11 1/4"

A page from: Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid(B130).

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Anon

Engraving

Holland

1720

Two small details with lanternists from two different pages from: Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid(B130).

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Monfieur Ozanam

Engraving

France

1735

Detail:3 3/4" x 5 3/4", page: 4 3/4" x 7 3/4"

From Recreations Mathematical and Physiques(B464) by Monfieur Ozanam. Published in Paris.

1647

Bouchardon

Engraving

France

1737

7 1/2" x 9 1/2"

Two plates from Etudes prises dans le bas peuple ou les cris de Paris(B82). Paris, 1737

The most well know illustration of a woman lanternist from the 18th. century.

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Etching

Dutch

1739

18 1/2 x 13"

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Joh. Georg Hertel

Copper engraving

Germany

c. 1740

7 1/2 x 11 3/4"

Part of a set of five prints "The Five Senses".

0730

Anon

Engraving

Netherlands

1741

6 1/4" x 8"

Plate #20 from Petro van Musschenbroek's book Elementa Physicae(B475). Plate includes picture of five early moveable slides.

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Anon

Engraving

Holland

1742

10" x 10"

A page from Physices Elementa Mathematica(B186).

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Francis Hayman 1708-1776)

Engraving

England

1743

13 3/4" x 12"

After the original painting in Vauxall Gardens.

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