Athanasii Kircheri Fuldensis Buchonii e Soc. Iesu presbyteri ... Ars magna lucis et vmbrae in decem libros digesta
Subtitle: quibus admirandae lucis et vmbrae in mundo, atque adeò vniuersa natura, vires effectusq[ue] vti noua, ita varia nouorum reconditiorumq[ue] speciminum exhibitione, ad varios mortalium vsus, panduntur
Contributors: Miotte, Pierre, active 1640-1660, engraver; Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans, 1633-1654, dedicatee; Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, 1608-1657, censor; Scheus, Hermann, active 1638-1646, bookseller; Grignani, Lodovico, 1586-1651, printer
Publisher: Sumptibus Hermanni Scheus; Ex typographia Ludouici Grignani
Published: 1646
Place of publication: Romae
Language: lat; heb; grc
Number of pages: 935
Subjects: Optics; Early works to 1800; Light; Physics; Astronomy; Astrology; Astronomical Phenomena; Optical Phenomena; Optics and Photonics; Catholicism; Jesuits
Other titles: Ars magna lucis et vmbrae in decem libros digesta; Ars magna lucis et umbrae in decem libros digesta; Athanasii Kircheri Fvldensis Bvchonii e Soc. Iesv presbyteri ... Ars magna lucis et vmbrae in decem libros digesta; Ars magna lvcis et vmbrae; Artis magnae
Work titles: Ars magna lucis et umbrae
Notes: Added engraved title page, signed: Petrus Miotte Burgundus sculp.

Title page for "Volume secundum" preceding page 495.

Extra plates inserted at p. 252 (unnumbered), 371 (numbered vi incorrectly), 402 (unnumbered) and 494 (unnumbered).

Signatures: ([dagger])⁴ 2[dagger]-5 [dagger]⁴ A-3P⁴ 3Q⁴ (3Q4+1) 3R-6D⁴ ; 497 leaves.

"Superiorum permissu."--Title page.

Errors in pagination: 63-64 numbered 51-52; 94 numbered 86; 193 numbered 185; 412-13 numbered 404-05; 470 numbered 370; 567-68 repeated; 651 numbered 551; 845 numbered 847.

The title page for v. 2 (leaf 3Q4+1) is not accounted for in register (p. [15] of the last sequence).

Title vignette; initials; head- and tail-pieces.

The folded plate (no. XX) shows the "Horoscopium Catholicum Societ. Iesu.," with various nations arranged in a tree structure, and various languages and scripts radiating from the corners.

Includes dedication to Archduke Ferdinand (1633-1654), son of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (1608-1657), followed by a preface by Ferdinand III.

Errata: page [14] at end.

Includes index.

Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus, t.  IV, column 1050, entry 9

In Latin with Greek quotes, sometimes translated. Also quite a few Hebrew words in Hebrew script.

Cons. Trans. #1403 & #1571.