Mirror of Fire, Theodore Galle, 1610 Canvas Print
In the foreground, a fire is lit through the focal point of a mirror. In the background, images of the use of mirrors to make fire: a child is petrified by a basilisk, a child is pricked by nettles, Archimedes uses a mirror to burn a ship. The print has a Latin caption: 'Flamma volat, micat fugam cape, conflagrat orbis: plena adeo igniuomis omnia funt specvlis'. At the bottom a legend of the scenes that are numbered alphabetically on the image. The print is part of a twelve-part series (III from XII prints) with the subject twelve mirrors with which man tries to see God.
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