Article ID: CBB859505830

Poetry and Prophecy in the Encyclopedic System of Athanasius Kircher (2005)

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The scholarly career of the German Jesuit Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) combined Egyptology and natural philosophy into a single encyclopedic system. Explaining that system to a vast public through his Museum on the grounds of the Jesuits' Collegio Romano and through his voluminous publications constituted his own highly distinctive version of the Jesuit mission to «comfort souls» with the prospect of Christian salvation. Gifted himself with prophetic vision, Kircher nonetheless saw such phenomena as essentially rational expressions of divine and natural law, just as he regarded his scholarly work as its own variety of poetry, inspired by the Muses.

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Authors & Contributors
Luzzini, Francesco
Cassiani, Gennaro
Cerbo, Anna
Ciancio, Luca
Graney, Christopher M.
Grendler, Paul F.
Journals
Bruniana & Campanelliana: Ricerche Filosofiche e Materiali Storico-testuali
Galilæana: Journal of Galilean Studies
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Acque Sotterranee
Journal of Jesuit Studies
Publishers
Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura
Fabrizio Serra Editore
Olschki
Oxford University Press for the British Academy
Peter Lang
University of Notre Dame Press
Concepts
Science and religion
Natural philosophy
Poetry and poetics
Science and literature
Natural history
Astronomy
People
Galilei, Galileo
Kircher, Athanasius
Bozio, Tommaso
Brahe, Tycho
Bruno, Giordano
Casati, Paolo
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
18th century
Ancient
19th century
Renaissance
Places
Italy
Europe
Alexandria (Egypt)
Holy Roman Empire
Egypt
Mediterranean region
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome)
University of Padua
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