Burning mirror

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A concave mirror used to focus sunlight to a point to create intense heat, a subject of fascination in catoptrics and natural magic.

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Egypt

Magia Naturalis Libri XX (1607)The Great Art of Light and Shadow On Subtlety History of Both Worlds: Macrocosm+22 more

Aristotle

Magia Naturalis Libri XX (1607)The Great Art of Light and Shadow On Subtlety History of Both Worlds: Macrocosm+21 more

Plato

Magia Naturalis Libri XX (1607)The Great Art of Light and Shadow On Subtlety History of Both Worlds: Macrocosm+18 more

Rome

Magia Naturalis Libri XX (1607)The Great Art of Light and Shadow On Subtlety Instruction in Measurement+18 more

Italy

Magia Naturalis Libri XX (1607)The Great Art of Light and Shadow On Subtlety History of Both Worlds: Macrocosm+15 more

India

Magia Naturalis Libri XX (1607)The Great Art of Light and Shadow On Subtlety Picatrix (Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm)+14 more

Alexandria

Magia Naturalis Libri XX (1607)The Great Art of Light and Shadow On Subtlety History of Both Worlds: Macrocosm+13 more

Germany

Magia Naturalis Libri XX (1607)The Great Art of Light and Shadow On Subtlety History of Both Worlds: Macrocosm+13 more

Athens

Magia Naturalis Libri XX (1607)The Great Art of Light and Shadow History of Both Worlds: Macrocosm Natural Magic, or On the Miracles of Natural Things+12 more

Spain

Magia Naturalis Libri XX (1607)The Great Art of Light and Shadow On Subtlety History of Both Worlds: Macrocosm+12 more

Greece

Magia Naturalis Libri XX (1607)The Great Art of Light and Shadow On Subtlety Instruction in Measurement+10 more

France

Magia Naturalis Libri XX (1607)The Great Art of Light and Shadow History of Both Worlds: Macrocosm Forest of Forests (Natural History)+9 more

Solomon

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Moses

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Babylon

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Appears in 25 Books

Magia Naturalis Libri XX (1607)

Giambattista della Porta

p. 643 p. 644 p. 645 p. 646 p. 647 p. 648 p. 649 p. 650 p. 651 p. 652+3 more pages

The Great Art of Light and Shadow

Athanasius Kircher

p. 672 p. 673 p. 674 p. 675 p. 676 p. 677 p. 678 p. 679 p. 680 p. 681+14 more pages

Instruction in Measurement

Albrecht Dürer

p. 19 p. 20 p. 21 p. 22 p. 23 p. 24 p. 25 p. 26 p. 27 p. 28+11 more pages

History of Both Worlds: Macrocosm

Robert Fludd

p. 571 p. 572 p. 573 p. 574 p. 575 p. 576 p. 577 p. 578 p. 579 p. 580+8 more pages

Natural Magic, or On the Miracles of Natural Things

Giambattista della Porta

p. 283 p. 284 p. 285 p. 286 p. 287 p. 288 p. 289 p. 290 p. 291 p. 292+7 more pages

Forest of Forests (Natural History)

Bacon, Francis

p. 130 p. 131 p. 132 p. 133 p. 134 p. 135 p. 136 p. 137 p. 138 p. 139+29 more pages

Guide to Chemistry

Lancilotti, Carlo

p. 148 p. 149 p. 150 p. 151 p. 152 p. 153 p. 154 p. 155 p. 156 p. 157+7 more pages

Picatrix (Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm)

al-Majriti (attrib.)

p. 192 p. 193 p. 194 p. 195 p. 196 p. 197 p. 198

Magia Naturalis Libri XX (1607)

Giambattista della Porta

p. 641 p. 642 p. 643 p. 644 p. 645 p. 646 p. 647 p. 648 p. 649 p. 650+4 more pages

Exercitationes Geometricae Sex

Bonaventura Cavalieri

p. 448 p. 449 p. 450 p. 451 p. 452 p. 453 p. 454 p. 455 p. 456 p. 457+17 more pages

Natural Magic in Twenty Books

Giambattista della Porta

p. 286 p. 287 p. 288 p. 289 p. 290 p. 291 p. 292 p. 293 p. 294 p. 295+1 more pages

Magia Naturalis (first edition, 4 books)

Giambattista della Porta

p. 282 p. 283 p. 284 p. 285 p. 286 p. 287 p. 288 p. 289 p. 290 p. 291+19 more pages

Natural Magic

Kenelm Digby; Athanasius Kircher

p. 631 p. 632 p. 633 p. 634 p. 635 p. 636 p. 637 p. 638 p. 639 p. 640+13 more pages

Opus Tertium, Opus Minus, Compendium Philosophiae

Bacon, Roger

p. 156 p. 157 p. 158 p. 159 p. 160 p. 161 p. 162 p. 163 p. 164 p. 165+12 more pages

Optics

Witelo; Georg von Peuerbach

p. 466 p. 467 p. 468 p. 469 p. 470 p. 471 p. 472 p. 473 p. 474

On Subtlety

Girolamo Cardano

p. 142 p. 143 p. 144 p. 145 p. 146 p. 147 p. 148 p. 149 p. 150 p. 151

Greek Mathematics, Vol. II: Aristarchus to Pappus (Loeb)

Ivor Thomas

p. 347 p. 348 p. 349 p. 350 p. 351 p. 352 p. 353 p. 354 p. 355 p. 356+19 more pages

Chemical Furnaces & Vessels — Wecher, 17th-Century French MS

Jaques Wecher

p. 3 p. 4 p. 5 p. 6 p. 7 p. 8 p. 9 p. 10 p. 11 p. 12+57 more pages

The Manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci, Vol. 5

Leonardo da Vinci (ed. Ravaisson-Mollien)

p. 86 p. 87 p. 88 p. 89 p. 90 p. 91 p. 92 p. 93 p. 94 p. 95

Complete Works, Volume 7: Correspondence 1670-1675

Christiaan Huygens

p. 496 p. 497 p. 498 p. 499 p. 500 p. 501 p. 502 p. 503 p. 504 p. 505+3 more pages

Complete Works, Volume 6: Correspondence 1666-1669

Christiaan Huygens

p. 517 p. 518 p. 519 p. 520 p. 521 p. 522 p. 523 p. 524 p. 525 p. 526+3 more pages

Magiae naturalis libri viginti

Porta, Giovanni Battista della

p. 310 p. 311 p. 312 p. 313 p. 314 p. 315 p. 316 p. 317 p. 318 p. 319+1 more pages

Six Geometrical Exercises (Exercitationes Geometricae Sex)

Bonaventura Cavalieri

p. 465 p. 466 p. 467 p. 468 p. 469 p. 470 p. 471 p. 472 p. 473 p. 474+16 more pages

Della Porta Magia Naturalis (German 1713)

Giambattista Della Porta

p. 1026 p. 1027 p. 1028 p. 1029 p. 1030 p. 1031 p. 1032 p. 1033 p. 1034 p. 1035+9 more pages

Safar-nameh (Book of Travels)

Nasir Khusraw

p. 171 p. 172 p. 173 p. 174 p. 175 p. 176 p. 177 p. 178 p. 179 p. 180+13 more pages