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SCHOTT, GASPAR; and KIRCHER, ATHANASIUS, S. J. Joco-seriorum naturae et artis, sive magiae naturalis, Centuriae Tres: das ist, Drey-Hundert Nütz- und Lustige SätzeAllerhand Merck-würdiger Stücke [etc.]. 22 engraved plates. [8], 330 [i. e., 328], [8] pages, including engraved additional title. 4to, 202x161 mm, modern vellum-backed marbled boards; text evenly browned, occasional marginal foxing and minor stains on plates. Bamberg: Johann Martin Schönwetter, 1677
first edition in german of a 1662 Latin collection of practical and recreational scientific tricks and experiments, miscellaneous curiosities, and medical remedies; second issue, with title dated 1677 instead of 1672. A section on venisection on pages 26-28 includes a discussion of contemporary reactions to Harvey's account of the circulation. Pages 278-330 contain a German version of Athanasius Kircher's 1661 Diatribe de prodigiosis crucibus, an attempt "to explain the uncanny appearance of crosses on clothing and other objects following an eruption of Vesuvius" (Merrill). Dünnhaupt, Schott 13.II.2; Merrill 16 (original edition of Kircher).
