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The life has been said to have been originally written in Spain by Franciscus Schottus of Toledo, in the Latin language. But this biographical work is assigned to the date of 1594, previously to which the Life is known to have existed in German.
Compilations such as the Itinerarium Italiæ of Schottus, published at Antwerp in 1600, and issued in eleven editions during the seventeenth century, had been sufficient for the accomplished traveller of the Renaissance.
Concerning other aids; besides what the masters of the catoptrics, phonocamptics, otacoustics, &c., have done, something has been attempted by the Royal Society; and you know the industrious Kircher has much laboured. The rest of those artificial helps are summed up by the Jesuit And. Schottus.
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