Scientific volume

Institution

Ajuntament de Girona

Object description:

Collegium Experimentale sive Curiosum in quo Primaria hujus Seculi Inventa & Experimenta Physico-Mathematica. Johannes Sturmius. Sturm, a professor of mathematics and oriental languages at the University of Altdorf (Germany) published the first image of a portable magic lantern, which was quite similar to the lanterns that were manufactured from that time onwards. In this same volume we also find the first image of a magic lantern slide (the head of the god Bacchus).

Object/Work type:

prints (visual works)

Location:

Gerona - Spain

Production

Sturmius, Johannes (writer)

Place: Germany

Subject/theme:

image-projecting equipment, books, visual arts

Resource

Rights Type: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ 

Date Taken: 1996

Record

Rights Type: CC0

Source: Ajuntament de Girona

Identifier: MC-MP03315