Physiologia Kircheriana experimentalis, qua summa argumentorum multitudine et varietate, naturalium rerum scientia per experimenta Physica, Mathematica, Medica, Chymica, Musica, Megnetica, Mechanica comprobatur atque stabilitur [...].

Folio: [8, incl. engr. title]-248-[8] pp. (some foxing and soiling, marg. dampstaining, sl. toned, p. 73 repaired).

19th-c. dark brown sheep, flat spine (worn). Untrimmed copy and probably in its first binding.

First edition published by Johann Stephen Kestler, Kircher's pupil, containing various experiments by the famous Jesuit scientist (1602-1680) and illustrated with a fine engr. title and several woodcuts and etchings in-text. Treatises on astronomy ("In centro terrae homo positus neque comedere neque bibere posset", "De Scintillatione Syderum", etc.), on physics ("Per evaporationem aquarum Misturam cognoscere", "De Calcinandis Metallis per Mercurium", "In interiori Crystallo Horas inscribere", etc.), on optics ("De radiatione imaginationis et quidem gallinae", "Anaclasticum De natura refractionis et radii refracti", etc.), on natural history ("Uvas nigras et albas, producere in una vite", "De Sapore et odore fructibus floribusque inducendo", "De Symphitheusi, id est, Experimentum circa transplatationes. arborum, plantarum. aliarum rerum exhibitio", etc.), on music ("Musicas proportiones ponderibus explorare", "Vox per trabes oblongas mirisicè propagatur", "De Sympathica harmonia per conica corpora", etc.) on architecture ("Statuae Memmonis modus et ratio", "Quibus machinis dicta moles, aqua marique deveherentur", etc.).
Ref. STCN 055469558. - Honeyman 1834. - Wellcome III:396. - Garrison & Morton ("Includes the first recorded experiment in hyponotism in animals"). - Macclesfield Library, Sotheby's London, April 2005, n. 1162. - Not in DBS, Horblit, Bibl. Walleriana.
Prov. [Luc Canon].