Mirror of fire; Speclvm Vrens; Twelve mirrors with which man tries to see God; Duodecim Specula Deum. In the foreground a fire is lit by means of the focal point of a mirror. In the background show images of the use of mirrors to make fire: a child is petrified by a basilisk, a child is punctured by nettles, Archimedes uses a mirror to burn a ship. The print has a Latin caption: 'Flamma Volat, Micat Fugam Cape, ConflageRat Orbis: Plena Ado Igigniuomis Omnia Funt Specvlis'. At the bottom of a legend of the scenes that are alphabetically numbered in the image. The print is part of a twelve-part
Mirror of fire; Speclvm Vrens; Twelve mirrors with which man tries to see God; Duodecim Specula Deum. In the foreground a fire is lit by means of the focal point of a mirror. In the background show images of the use of mirrors to make fire: a child is petrified by a basilisk, a child is punctured by nettles, Archimedes uses a mirror to burn a ship. The print has a Latin caption: 'Flamma Volat, Micat Fugam Cape, ConflageRat Orbis: Plena Ado Igigniuomis Omnia Funt Specvlis'. At the bottom of a legend of the scenes that are alphabetically numbered in the image. The print is part of a twelve-part series (III from XII prints) with the subject twelve mirrors with which man tries to see God.
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