Das Weltgebäude nach den Gesetzen der Natur dargestellt - 1842

The world-machine, depicted according to the laws of nature and moved by a peculiar and surely combined mechanism, together with a series of corresponding auxiliary devices. For clear illustration to all who do not wish to forgo a closer acquaintance with the wondrous universe, the undersigned has placed his self-made large astronomical apparatuses as the fruit of twelve years’ labor in the Royal Odeon on the second floor for public viewing. (Signer:) Scharff, from Thorn. (Munich), ca. 1842. A single-sheet print with typographical text in a border. Page size: 53 x 35 cm. The mechanic Scharff, who died in 1862, produced among other things a Tellurium, which illustrated the orbit of the planets around the sun.

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