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
Guichard, Luis Arturo
García Alonso, Juan Luis
Maria Luisa Delvigo
Sordoni, Valentina
Varanini, Laura Simoni
Concepts
Science and religion
Natural philosophy
Astronomy
Poetry and poetics
Science and literature
Natural history
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
Ancient
16th century
4th century
5th century
Places
Italy
Europe
Hellenistic world
Mediterranean region
Egypt
Holy Roman Empire
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
University of Padua
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome)
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