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used Kircher's technique to show the journey from China to Belgium of Italian Jesuit missionary Martino Martini.

Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens, who knew Athanasius Kircher's Ars Magna Lucius et Umbrae, is often credited as the inventor of the magic lantern, described in a correspondence dated to 1659.

The "solar microscope" was employed in early photographic experiments with photosensitive silver nitrate by Thomas Wedgwood

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