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• Contributions of Dutchmen in the Beginnings of Film Technology[Active]
• 1. Porta J. , Natural Magick , London , Young & Speed , 1658; reprinted, Price D. J. , ed., New York, Basic Books, 1957 . The author used the reprint of the anonymous 1658 English translation.EXTERNAL
• 10. Ars magna , 1st ed., fig. 2 of pl. 34.EXTERNAL
• 11. Ars magna , 1st ed., fig. 4, opposite folio 900.EXTERNAL
• 12. Ars magna , 1st ed., folio 887.EXTERNAL
• 13. Schotti G. , Magia universalis naturae et artis , Herbipoli , J. G. Schonwetteri , 1657 ; 2nd ed. , Bamberg, J. A. Cholini, 1677. The author used the second edition during his research.EXTERNAL
• 14. Thorndike L. , A History of Magic and Experimental Science , vols. 7 and 8 , New York , Columbia U. Press , 1958 , p. 591 .EXTERNAL
• 15. Needham J. , Science and Civilization in China , vol. 4 , Cambridge U. Press , 1965 , p. 123 .EXTERNAL
• 16. Letter, Christiaen Huyghens to his brother , Constantijn Huyghens, #240 , October 22, 1655 , from: Christiaen Huyghens, Oeuvres Complètes, La Haye, M. Nijhoff; Société Hollandaise des Sciences, 1888–91, vol. 1, p. 357.EXTERNAL
• 17. Reproduced from Huyghens ms. A, p. 152, in Oeuvres Complètes , vol. 22 , p. 197 .EXTERNAL
• 18. See letter, Christiaen Huyghens to his brother, L. Huyghens, #1005, April 19, 1662, in Oeuvres Complètes , vol. 4 , p. 111 .EXTERNAL
• 19. Letter, P. Petit to Christiaen Huyghens, #1078, November 28, 1664, in Oeuvres Complètes , vol. 4 , pp. 267 – 270 . Note that this letter is incorrectly placed among correspondence for the year 1662. See Oeuvres Complètes, vol. 22, p. 552, fn. 142, and vol. 5, pp. 161, 162 for the date correction.EXTERNAL
• 2. Ibid., p. 363 .EXTERNAL
• 20. Letter, Christiaen Huyghens to P. Petit, #1283, December 11, 1664, in Oeuvres Complètes , vol. 5 , pp. 161 , 162 .EXTERNAL
• 21. Oeuvres Complétes , vol. 22 , p. 522 .EXTERNAL
• 22. Reproduced from Huyghens ms. 1, in Oeuvres Complètes , vol. 13 , p. 786 , Appendix 2.EXTERNAL
• 23. Letter, P. Petit to Christiaen Huyghens, #1078, November 28, 1664, in Oeuvres Complètes , vol. 4 , p. 269 . Measurements were given in pouces, the French measurement of the time. One pouce equals 1.006 inches.EXTERNAL
• 24. Also spelled Walgenstein and Walgensteinius.EXTERNAL
• 25. See ref. 3, Van Nooten, p. 120 .EXTERNAL
• 26. de Chales C. , Cursus seu mundus mathematicus , 1st ed. , Lugduni , 1674 ; 2nd ed. , Lugduni, Anissonios, Posuel, et Rigaud, 1690, vol. 2 , pp. 696 , 697 . The account is from the second edition.EXTERNAL
• 27. Kircheri A. , Ars magna lucis et umbrae , 2nd. rev. ed. , Amstelodami , J. Janssonium , 1671 , pp. 768 , 769 .EXTERNAL
• 28. Jaocaeo O. , (Copenhagen, Royal Museum), Museum Regium , Hafniae , J. Schmetgen , 1696 , pt. 2, sect. 4, p. 67 .EXTERNAL
• 29. Chales De , Cursus seu mundus mathematicus , 2nd. ed. , p. 680 .EXTERNAL
• 30. Ibid., p. 696 .EXTERNAL
• 31. Ars magna , 2nd rev. ed., pp. 768 , 769 .EXTERNAL
• 32. de Monconys B. , Journal des Voyages de Monsieur de Monconys , Lyons , Boissat et Remeus , 1665–6 , vol. 2 , pp. 17 , 18 . Monconys misspells Reeves' name as Rives.EXTERNAL
• 33. Ibid.EXTERNAL
• 34. Pepys S. , The Diary of Samuel Pepys , Wheatley H. B. , ed., 1st edition , London 1895 ; reprint, New York , Heritage Press , 1942 .EXTERNAL
• 35. Ibid., vol. 2, p. 219; entry for August 22, 1866 .EXTERNAL
• 36. Eschinardi F. , Centuriae opticae , Roma N. A. Tinafsij , 1664 , probl. 91, p. 221 .EXTERNAL
• 38. Ars magna , 2nd rev. ed., pp. 769 , 770 .EXTERNAL
• 39. Ars magna , 2nd rev. ed., p. 769 .EXTERNAL
• 4. Letter of Cornelis Drebbel to Y. van Rietwijk, ca. 1608/9. Reproduced and translated in ref. 3, p. 117 .EXTERNAL
• 40. Ibid. “Listlessness” would be a more literal translation than “matter-of-factness.” But Kircher surely means that the audience has become accustomed to his shows, rather than the negative connotations implicit in the word “listlessness.”.EXTERNAL
• 41. Ars magna , 2nd rev. ed., p. 770 .EXTERNAL
• 44. de Sepibus Valesius G. , Romanii collegiis societatus jesu musaeum , Amstelodami , Janssonio-Waesbergiana , 1678 , pp. 38 – 40 .EXTERNAL
• 45. Alsata Kestlerus J. S. , Physiologia Kircheriana experimentalis , Amstelodami , Janssonio-Waesbergiana , 1680 , pp. 124 – 128 .EXTERNAL
• 5. Wheelock A. K. Jr. , “Constantijn Huyghens and Early Attitudes toward the Camera Obscura,” History of Photography , 1 : p. 93 , Apr. 1977 .EXTERNAL
• 6. See for example: Brewster D. , A Treatise on Optics , Bache A. D. , ed., Philadelphia , Carey, Lea & Blanchard , 1833 , p. 276 .EXTERNAL
• 7. Fletcher J. E. , “Astronomy in the Life and Work of Athanasius Kircher,” Isis , 61 : p. 52 , fn. 3, 1970 .EXTERNAL
• 8. Kircheri A. , Ars magna lucis et umbrae , 1st ed., Roma H. Scheus , 1644 . Although completed in 1644, the book was not published until about 1646. The edition I studied, made from an original in the Vatican, was dated 1644.EXTERNAL
• 9. Ars magna , 1st ed., pl. 34, folio 912.EXTERNAL