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Language: en
Pages: 482
Pages: 482
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-08-02 - Publisher: Routledge
First published in 2004.Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) -- German Jesuit, occultist, polymath - was one of most curious figures in the history of science. He dab
Language: en
Pages: 320
Pages: 320
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Stolzenberg presents a new interpretation of Kircher's hieroglyphic studies, placing them in the context of seventeenth-century scholarship on paganism and Orie
Language: en
Pages: 96
Pages: 96
Type: BOOK - Published: 1979-01-01 - Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Athanasius Kircher (1602 - 80) stand out as one of the last all-encompassing minds. For this true Renaissance man, the whole world was a glorious appearance of
Language: en
Pages: 654
Pages: 654
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-08-26 - Publisher: BRILL
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 everythin
Language: en
Pages: 60
Pages: 60
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-10 - Publisher: Annick Press
Even the man who knew everything was wrong some of the time.