Rowland, Ingrid D. (Author)
Bruniana & Campanelliana: Ricerche Filosofiche e Materiali Storico-testuali
Volume: 11
Issue: 2
Pages: 509-517
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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