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226 - Schott, Gaspar. *Magia optica*, Bamberg, 1671. An important 17th-century treatise on optics and visual illusions
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Schott, Gaspar. *Magia optica*, Bamberg, 1671. An important 17th-century treatise on optics and visual illusions A beautiful edition of Gaspar Schott’s *Magia optica*, published in Bamberg in 1671 and richly illustrated with numerous full-page copperplate engravings. A student of Athanasius Kircher, Schott was one of the leading popularizers of experimental science in the 17th century and devoted this work to the study of optical phenomena, mirrors, lenses, anamorphoses, and instruments capable of producing surprising visual effects. The volume stands as an important testament to the convergence of scientific research, experimentation, and the culture of wonder during the Baroque era. A study copy with some imperfections but in a fine contemporary parchment binding, featuring a double frame of triple fillets and embossed floral decoration on the covers, a five-ribbed spine with a gold-lettered title label. An important seventeenth-century treatise on optics and visual illusions
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