The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 53
anchi, two of the demons whom we had seen at theAmphitheatre went on before us leaping and skipping, some-times running upon the roofs of the houses, and sometimes Uponthe ground. Cellini died in 1570, and his description, here curtlyrendered, has caused some authors to refer the discovery ofthe… … Fig. 2. Rome. Kircher, bornin 1601, was educatedfor a Jesnit, and it ap-pears he for a longperiod gave exhibitionsin his rooms at theJesnit College, whichwere nightly throngedby the noble and learnedinhabitants of Rome. In his Ars MagnaLncis et Umbrae, edi-tion of 1671, Kirchergives a large and…
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