Franz Kessler (painter)

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Franz Kessler (* around 1580 in Wetzlar , † around 1650 in Danzig ) was a painter , scholar , inventor and alchemist in the Holy Roman Empire .

He wrote a book Various bisshero several parts Secreta or Hidden Secret Arts about creating codes for encrypted messages, which was published in Oppenheim in September 1616.

In the same year he published a construction sketch for a diving bell for a man. However, calculations show that it was not functional.

The idea of ​​a movable one-man diving bell with adjustable anchor weights was taken up in 1860 by the Viennese painter Eugen von Ransonnet-Villez .

The work Holzsparkunst from 1618 deals with the improvement of the heating performance of tiled stoves and was published in France the following year.

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  • The water harness by Franz Kessler, 1616

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tobias Schrödel: Catalog: authors of books on cryptography . In: Different bisshero several partly secreta or hidden secret arts - Frantz Kessler . Retrieved October 26, 2010.
  2. ↑ C. Acott: A brief history of diving and decompression illness. (engl.) . In: South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society journal . 29, No. 2, 1999, ISSN  0813-1988 . Retrieved March 17, 2009.
  3. ^ Eugen von Ransonnet-Villez: Ceylon, sketches of its inhabitants, its animal and plant life and studies of the sea bed near the coast. Braunschweig, 1868.
  4. ^ Franz Kessler, Holzsparkunst (Frankfurt am Main: Anthoni Hummen, 1618).
    In France as: François Keslar, Épargne bois, c'est à dire, nouvelle et par ci-devant non commune, ni mise en lumiere, invention de certains et divers fourneaux artificiels, etc. ... (Oppenheim: Jean-Théodore de Bry, 1619).

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SURNAME Kessler, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Inventor and designer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1580
PLACE OF BIRTH Wetzlar
DATE OF DEATH around 1650
Place of death Danzig