Athanasius Kircher the last man who knew everything
Athanasius Kircher (1601?-1680) -- German Jesuit, occultist, polymath - was one of 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 incom...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York ; London :
Routledge
2004
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| Acceso en línea: | Sumario |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991008064499708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Athanasius Kircher and his world
- Baroque imaginary : the world of Athanasius Kircher, S.J. (1602-80)
- Kircher's Rome : a way to understand the Celeberrimus Museum Kircherianum
- Reveries in time of plague : Kircher and the plague epidemic of 1656
- Kircher and his critics : censorial practice and pragmatic disregard in the Society of Jesus
- Quasi-optical palingenesis : the circulation of portraits and the image of Kircher
- Kircher, Peiresc, and the foundation of Coptic studies, or, The quest for Barachias Nephi
- Trees, some amulets, and the seventy-two names of God : Kircher reveals the Kabbalah
- Kircher's chronology
- Athanasius Kircher, Giordano Bruno, and the panspermia of the infinite universe
- Father Athanasius on the isthmus of a middle state : understanding Kircher's paleontology
- The angel and the compass : Athanasius Kircher's geographical project
- Magnetic language : Athanasius Kircher and communication
- Publishing the polygraphy : manuscript, instrument, and print in the work of Athanasius Kircher
- Private and public knowledge : Kircher, esotericism and the republic of letters
- Baroque science between the old world and the new : Father Kircher and his fellow Jesuit, Valentin Stansel (1621-1705)
- A Jesuit's books in the new world : Athanasius Kircher and his American readers
- True lies : Kircher's China illustrata and the life story of a Mexican mystic
- Athanasius Kircher's China illustrata (1667) : an apologia pro sua vita
- The afterlife of a polymath
- Understanding Kircher in context
