Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
Barbara Ellmerer
Archive for the 'Instrument/Pointer' Category
Athanasius Kircher: Walking statue of Daedalus in the labyrinth. The paper figure contains a steel plate that responds to a hidden magnet (marked B) *
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
[ZB Magnet 3] Athanasius Kircher (1601-1680), Magnes sive De arte magnetica tripartium ( Köln: Iodocus Kalcoven, 1643), Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Alte Drucke und Rara, Z 113, fol. 318 (lower part).
Athanasius Kircher: Magnetic wind indicator. A complicated form of weathervane. The eagle moved by the wind, turns a cogwheel, whose movement is transferred to a pointer on a dial. A the same time a hidden magnet floating in water turns a figure of Aeolus, whose sceptre points in the same direction.*
Friday, September 16th, 2011
[ZB Magnet 3] Athanasius Kircher (1601-1680), Magnes sive De arte magnetica tripartium ( Köln: Iodocus Kalcoven, 1643), Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Alte Drucke und Rara, Z 113, fol. 322.
Athanasius Kircher: A sunflower clock. The flower turns naturally to the sun. A pointer fixed to the flower (F) indicates the time on a ring (DE) that encircles it *
Thursday, September 15th, 2011
[ZB Magnet 3] Athanasius Kircher (1601-1680), Magnes sive De arte magnetica tripartium ( Köln: Iodocus Kalcoven, 1643), Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Alte Drucke und Rara, Z 113, fol. 644.
