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John Wilkins and the issue of Faust Vrančić's parachute jump: The analysis of the narrative sources

Based on the content analysis, as well as on the established tradition of the Renaissance and early modern narrative sources concerning the art of flying, this article critically considers and disputes the hypothesis established by a number of Croatian 20th century scientists that the English mathematician and bishop John Wilkins (1614 − 1672) described in his work Mathematical Magick (London, 1648) the parachute jump of Faust Vrančić from a tower in Venice.

Faust Vrančić, John Wilkins, Johann Ernst Burggrave, Johannes Sturm, Hermann Friedrich Flayder, Alvaro Gutierrez Torres, Eilmer of Malmesbury, parachute, narrative sources

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