SKD | Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon
Historic clocks, globes, telescopes and burning mirrors in a Baroque palace pavilion.
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This guide to the Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon in Dresden's Zwinger follows Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, a Saxon scholar of the late seventeenth century who learned to bend sunlight into fire. It moves from mirror experiments in Paris to his own estate and workshop, and through a promised pension, an elector's demands and a Swedish invasion. Best heard standing beside the burning mirrors in the Enlightenment room.
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