A Study of the Life and Works of Athanasius Kircher, “Germanus incredibilis”: With a Selection of His Unpublished Correspondence and an Annotated Translation of His Autobiography (2011)
Fletcher, John Edward (Author)
Fletcher, Elizabeth (Author)
Trompf, G. W. (Author)
Kircher, Athanasius (Author)
Brill
Physical Details: xxxiv + pp.; bibl.; index
Language: English
Athanasius Kircher, a German Jesuit in 17th-century Rome, was an enigma. Intensely pious and a prolific author, he was also a polymath fascinated with everything from Egyptian hieroglyphs to the tiny creatures in his microscope. His correspondence with popes, princes and priests was a window into the restless energy of the period. It showed first-hand the seventeenth-century's struggle for knowledge in astronomy, microscopy, geology, chemistry, musicology, Egyptology, horology… The list goes on.
...MoreReview Stolzenberg, Daniel (2012) Review of "A Study of the Life and Works of Athanasius Kircher, “Germanus incredibilis”: With a Selection of His Unpublished Correspondence and an Annotated Translation of His Autobiography". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 683-685).
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