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"The collection succeeds in its expressed goal of charting some of the paths through Kircher's world."
-Darin Hayton, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, "Renasissance Quarterly
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Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) - German Jesuit, occultist, polymath - was one of the most curious figures in the history of science. He dabbled in all the mysteries of his time: the heavenly bodies, sound amplification, museology, botany, Asian languages, the pyramids of Egypt - almost anything incompletely understood. His wild, beautifully illustrated books are sometimes visionary, frequently wrong, and yet compelling documents in the history of ideas. This volume contains new essays on Kircher and his world by leading historians and historians of science, including Stephen Jay Gould, Ingrid Rowland, Anthony Grafton, Daniel Stoltzenberg, Paula Findlen, and Barbara Stafford.
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"The collection succeeds in its expressed goal of charting some of the paths through Kircher's world."
-Darin Hayton, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, "Renasissance Quarterly
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Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) - German Jesuit, occultist, polymath - was one of the most curious figures in the history of science. He dabbled in all the mysteries of his time: the heavenly bodies, sound amplification, museology, botany, Asian languages, the pyramids of Egypt - almost anything incompletely understood. His wild, beautifully illustrated books are sometimes visionary, frequently wrong, and yet compelling documents in the history of ideas. This volume contains new essays on Kircher and his world by leading historians and historians of science, including Stephen Jay Gould, Ingrid Rowland, Anthony Grafton, Daniel Stoltzenberg, Paula Findlen, and Barbara Stafford.
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Around 1678, news of the imminent demise of one of the seventeenth century's most fascinating, daring, prolific, and frustrating intellects leaked out of the Roman College, the principal educational institution of the Society of Jesus. Read the first page
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Around 1678, news of the imminent demise of one of the seventeenth century's most fascinating, daring, prolific, and frustrating intellects leaked out of the Roman College, the principal educational institution of the Society of Jesus. Read the first page
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