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3 unusual facts about Gaspar Schott


Arca Musarithmica

The Arca was followed by, and closely related to another Kircher invention, the Organum Mathematicum, described by Kircher's pupil, Gaspar Schott.

Lepus cornutus

Gaspar Schott wrote about the horned hare in his 1662 work "Physica curiosa", displaying it on the frontispice and with a further illustration.

Organum Mathematicum

The Organum Mathematicum was later described in a 1668 book of the same title by Gaspar Schott, who was Kircher's pupil.


Burning glass

Roger Bacon (13th century), Giambattista della Porta and his friends (16th century), Athanasius Kircher and Gaspar Schott (17th century), and the Comte du Buffon in 1740 in Paris.


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