page_title: Pantometrum Kircherianum
hierarchical_section_title: Pantometrum Kircherianum
caption_attribution_description: English: Illustration from “Pantometrum Kircherianum”, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Library
context_page_description: Pantometrum Kircherianum is a 1660 work by the Jesuit scholars Gaspar Schott and Athanasius Kircher. It was dedicated to Christian Louis I, Duke of Mecklenburg and printed in Würzburg by Johann Gottfried Schönwetter. It was a description, with building instructions, of a measuring device called the pantometer, that Kircher had developed some years before. The first edition include 32 copperplate illustrations.
context_section_description: Pantometrum Kircherianum is a 1660 work by the Jesuit scholars Gaspar Schott and Athanasius Kircher. It was dedicated to Christian Louis I, Duke of Mecklenburg and printed in Würzburg by Johann Gottfried Schönwetter. It was a description, with building instructions, of a measuring device called the pantometer, that Kircher had developed some years before. The first edition include 32 copperplate illustrations.
caption: Illustration from “Pantometrum Kircherianum”, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Library
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