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To learn more about the engraver of the 17th-century head-piece pictured to the left, see the IN BRIEF biography for Wenceslaus Hollar.

This forthcoming e-publication is part of She-philosopher.​com’s collection of materials on the natural and cultural history of the chameleon. For more, see the overview page for this ongoing study in the STUDIES section.

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This forthcoming title (Library Cat. No. KIR1646a) is not yet listed in She-philosopher.​com’s Library Catalog.


First Published:  September 2012
Revised (substantive):  9 May 2021


Under Construction

S O R R Y,  but this e-publication page — with an HTML transcript of Athanasius Kircher’s illustrated essay on the chameleon, as published in his Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae in Decem Libros Digesta (1st edn., Rome, 1646) — is still under construction.

17th-century head-piece showing six boys with farm tools, by Wenceslaus Hollar

We apologize for the inconvenience, and hope that you will return to check on its progress another time.

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