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Organum mathematicum libris IX…, Gaspar Schott (facsimile)
    • Setting:
      Room VI
    • Author:
      Gaspar Schott
    • Place:
      Herbipoli [Würzburg]
    • Date:
      original 1668 / facsimile 2010
    • Dimensions:
      facsimile 34x24 cm
    • Inventory:
      Firenze, Museo Galileo, MED 0791
    • Organum mathematicum libris IX…, Gaspar Schott (facsimile)

The Jesuit Gaspard Schott popularized the mathematical work of his teacher, Athanasius Kircher. In this text, he illustrates the functioning of the "Organum Mathematicum," a rod-based calculating machine invented by Kircher to easily perform the most complex arithmetical and geometrical operations.