Deac-17th century-Bildinformationen

• Pierre Petit’s sketch of his magic lantern, constructed after seeing a projection by Thomas Rasmussen Walgensten, 1664. (Christiaan Huygens, Oeuvres, V4, p. 269, Letter 2078)

• M. L. L. De Vallemont (Pierre Le lorrain, Abbé of Vallemont), later sketch of Thomas Rasmussen Walgensten’s magic lantern of 1665 (La physique Occulte. Paris, 1693: Chez Jean Anisson, p. 404)

• The first public representation of a magic lantern was poorly understood by its author, Athanasius Kircher. (Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae, 2nd edition. Amsterdam, 1671, p. 768)

• Portrait of Johann Franz Griendel during his time in Nürnberg, in an engraving by Georg Christoph Eimmart.

• Griendel’s magic lantern as illustrated by Johann Christoph Sturm, who demonstrated it as a “novelty” in 1672. (Collegium experimentale sive curiosum. Nürnberg, 1676, Fig. LXXX, p. 164)

• The oldest surviving image of a lantern slide, probably engraved after a slide used in Griendel’s exhibitions in Nürnberg, and recorded by Johann Christoph Sturm. (Collegium experimentale sive curiosum. Nürnberg, 1676, Fig. LXXXI, p. 165)

• Sketch of the optical principles of a magic lantern by Johann Zahn (Oculus artificialis sive curiosum. Herbipoli [Würzburg], 1785/86, V. 2 [1686], p. 258)

• Four of the lanterns recorded by Johann Zahn. (Oculus artificialis sive curiosum. Herbipoli [Würzburg], 1785/86, V. 3 [1686], p. 251)

• Three lanterns recorded by Johann Zahn. (Oculus artificialis sive curiosum. Herbipoli [Würzburg], 1785/86, V. 3 [1686], p. 253)

• The first lantern illustrated by Simon Witgeest [Willem Goeree] in 1684, five years after his book was first published. (Het Natuurlyk Tover-Boek. Amsterdam, 1684 [1679], p. 254)

• The second lantern illustrated by Simon Witgeest [Willem Goeree] which first appeared in the Dutch edition of 1701, and the following year in the German edition. (Natürliches Zauber-Buch Oder neuer spiel-Platz der Künste. Nürnberg, 1702, p. 57)

• Engraving by Melchior Haffner, originally from Ulm but working in Augsburg, of the title page to a book on Asia and China by Johann Christian Wagner (Das mächtige Kayser-Reich Sina und die Asiatische Tartarey. Augsburg, 1688. Title page/Frontispiece)

• Detail of Haffner’s engraving, showing the magic lantern and the theology constructed around light by the Jesuits in the late 17th century. (Das mächtige Kayser-Reich Sina und die Asiatische Tartarey. Augsburg, 1688. Title page/Frontispiece, detail)

•   The first English depiction of a magic lantern, by William Molyneux in an illustration that would be copied widely until the mid-19th century. (Dioptrica Nova. A Treatise on Dioptricks in Two Parts. London, 1692, pl. 38, Fig. 2)

• The lantern of Johann Michael Conradi, with its moveable illuminant. (Der dreyfach geartete Sehe-Strahl. Coburg, 1710, Pl XXII)

• The beginnings of the square/rectangular shaped lantern, from Christian Gottlieb Hertel. Note the two slide stages cut through the lamphouse. (Vollständige Anweisung zum Glaß-Schleiffen. Halle, 1716, Tab. XV)

• The illustration of a rectangular lantern in the encyclopaedia of Christian Friedrich Wolff. This illustration was later taken over by Diderot and Alembert for their Encyclopédie, published in 1751. (Elementa mathesos universae. Magdeburg, 1713, V. 2, Fi

• In his popular and much-translated Récréations mathématiques et physiques of 1694, Jacques Ozanam reverted to Kircher’s awkward illustration of the magic lantern. (here, Recreations Mathematical and Physical. London, 1708, Pl. 25, p. 478)