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Johann Zahn

Specula physico-mathematico-historica notabilium ac mirabilium sciendorum, in qua mundi mirabilis oeconomia, nec non mirifice amplus, et magnificus ejusdem abdite reconditus, nunc autem ad lucem protractus, ac ad varias perfacili methodo aquirendas scientias in epitomen collectus thesaurus curiosis omnibus cosmosophis inspectandus proponitur. Opus omnigena eruditione, ac rerum memorabilium argumentis conspicuum, cuivis hominum statui perutile: quo universae naturae majestas in triplici mundo coelesti, aereo, & terrestri ... Authore Joanne Zahn, sacri e candid Ordinis Premontratensis canonico regulari, ... 1. - Norimbergae : sumptibus Joannis Cristophori Lochner bibliopolae : Literis Knorzianis, 1696. - [54], 448, [8] p., [26] c. di tav. di cui 17 ripiegate, [9] c. di tabella ripiegate : 1 antiporta calcografica, 1 ritratto ; 2°. - Antiporta calcografica con un uomo sul mondo circondato da altre figure umane a mo' di cornice. - Frontespizio in rosso e nero. - Frontalini, iniziali decorate, fregi e finalini xilografici. - Illustrazioni calcografiche incise da Georg Christoph Eimmart. - Segn.: a-b4 A-3M4 3N2 . [1]
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Johann Zahn (29 March 1641, Karlstadt am Main – 27 June 1707) was the seventeenth-century German author of Oculus Artificialis Teledioptricus Sive Telescopium (Würzburg, 1685). This work contains many descriptions and diagrams, illustrations and sketches of both the camera obscura and magic lantern, along with various other lanterns, slides, projection types, peepshow boxes, microscopes, telescopes, reflectors, and lenses. As a student of light, Zahn is considered the most prolific writer and illustrator of the camera obscura. (From Wikipedia)

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