LIBRARY > Digital edition: Lib. Cat. No. KIR1646a > “Chromatismus Chamaeleontis.” Book 1, Part 3, Chapter 7, pp. 86–87 of Athanasii Kircheri Fuldensis Buchonii e Soc Jesu Presbyteri; olim in Herbipolensi, & Avenionensi Societatis Jesu gymnasiis orientalium linguarum, & matheseos, nunc huius in Romano Collegio professoris ordinarii. Ars magna lucis et umbrae in decem libros digesta. Quibus admirandae lucis et umbrae in mundo, atque adeò universa natura, vires effectus[que] uti nova, ita varia novorum reconditiorum [que] speciminum exhibitione, ad varios mortalium usus, panduntur. Cum privilegio Sacr. Caesar. Majestatis. Romae: Sumptibus Hermanni Scheus, ex typographia Ludouici Grignani, superiorum permissu, MDCXLVI [1646]. By Athanasius Kircher (1602–1680).

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