Panorama magic lantern slide for an educational setting

	anufacturer unknown
Name	[Earth and Sun. Solstices. Zodiac]
Date	1840-1890
Register	2468-07

Glass slide for a magic lantern for an astronomy class. The projection of images with the lantern as an educational instrument was already announced by several authors shortly after its invention. This is the case, for example, of Johannes Zahn, who at the end of the seventeenth century was one of the first advocates of the use of the device for educational purposes. Initially, this educational use was above all confined to cultural institutions, which emerged in the main European cities with the intention of disseminating knowledge at a time when various sectors of society developed an interest in technical advances and the discoveries that were taking place. Magic lantern projections were incorporated into the conferences they organised as a tool of the first magnitude for the communication of information through images. From the mid-nineteenth century, lantern projections began to be introduced in schools and colleges and also, but with a more evangelising sense, in religious organisations.

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