File:Future santa tech.GIF

main image TITLE: Tableau explicatif général. Les effets du vol aérien actif / lith. Schmid. CALL NUMBER: LOT 13404, no. 13 [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsca-02513 (digital file from original print) No known restrictions on publication. SUMMARY: Technical illustration shows 21 figures about aeronautics: the mechanics of insect flight (Figs. 1, 3-5), wing design (Figs. 7-9, 13-15), the effects of propellers (Figs. 2 & 6), and a man-powered device designed by Jakob Degen (Fig. 10); also shows parachutes and airships (Figs. 18-21). CREATED/PUBLISHED: [1852] Tollin, Ferdinand, 1807-1860, designer. NOTES: Title from item. Illus. from: L'aéronautique d'aprés nature / Ferdinand Tollin. Genéve : Imp. d'É. Carey, 1852, pl. 2. "Invt. & constr. de Tollin"--below fig. 15. Subsequent marking in red pencil. Tissandier collection. Inserts from During the early 17th century Daniel Stolcius was a populariser of the symbolic tradition of Alchemy. His Viridarium Chymicum published in 1624 has been described as "a pictorial encyclopaedia of 17th century Alchemy",