2-361-744 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Magic lantern, 1671 (1956). The projection of an image of a man burning in Hell. The image was produced by light from a lamp which travelled down the lens and through one of the movable slides to project the image onto the wall. From Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae by the German Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher. A print from Things, a volume about the origin and early history of many things, common and less common, essential and inessential, by Readers Union, the Grosvenor Press, London, 1956.