Athanasius Kircher

Author : Paula Findlen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135948445
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Athanasius Kircher written by Paula Findlen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2004.Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) -- 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 incompletely understood. Kircher coined the term electromagnetism, printed Sanskrit for the first time in a Western book, and built a famous museum collection. His wild, beautifully illustrated books are sometimes visionary, frequently wrong, and yet compelling documents in the history of ideas. They are being rediscovered in our own time. 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.-

Author : Daniel Stolzenberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226924149
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Egyptian Oedipus written by Daniel Stolzenberg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stolzenberg presents a new interpretation of Kircher's hieroglyphic studies, placing them in the context of seventeenth-century scholarship on paganism and Oriental languages. Situating Kircher in the social world of baroque Rome, with its scholars, artists, patrons, and censors, he shows how Kircher's study of ancient paganism depended on the circulation of texts, artifacts, and people between Christian and Islamic civilisations.

Author : Joscelyn Godwin
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 9780500810224
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Athanasius Kircher written by Joscelyn Godwin and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 God waiting to be explored. Kircher was a Jesuit and an archeologist, a phenomenal linguist and an avid collector of scientific instruments. He deciphered archaic languages, experimented with alchemy and music therapy, optics and magnetism. Egyptian mystery wisdom, Greek, Cabbalistic and Christian philosophy met on common ground in his work. Kircher's sumptuous volumes were revered throughout Europe, and his gigantic oeuvre is represented here through striking engravings - most of them reprinted for the first time - together with annotations and an introduction to Kircher's life and work.

Author : John Edward Fletcher
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004216324
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Study of the Life and Works of Athanasius Kircher, ‘Germanus Incredibilis’ written by John Edward Fletcher and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-08-26 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Athanasius Kircher, a German Jesuit in 17th-century Rome, was an extraordinary polymath. His fascinating correspondence with popes, princes and priests was a key to the mind-set of the period, and the transition from medieval to modern scientific thinking.

Author : Marilee Peters
Publisher : Annick Press
ISBN 13 : 9781554519736
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Knew Everything written by Marilee Peters and published by Annick Press. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even the man who knew everything was wrong some of the time.

Author : Harold B. Lee Library
Publisher : Martino Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1578984327
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680), Jesuit Scholar written by Harold B. Lee Library and published by Martino Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Glassie
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1594631891
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Man of Misconceptions written by John Glassie and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Scientific American Best Science Book of 2012 An Atlantic Wire Best Book of 2012 A New York Times Book Review “Editor's Choice” The “fascinating” (The New Yorker) story of Athanasius Kircher, the eccentric scholar-inventor who was either a great genius or a crackpot . . . or a bit of both. The interests of Athanasius Kircher, the legendary seventeenth-century priest-scientist, knew no bounds. From optics to music to magnetism to medicine, he offered up inventions and theories for everything, and they made him famous across Europe. His celebrated museum in Rome featured magic lanterns, speaking statues, the tail of a mermaid, and a brick from the Tower of Babel. Holy Roman Emperors were his patrons, popes were his friends, and in his spare time he collaborated with the Baroque master Bernini. But Kircher lived during an era of radical transformation, in which the old approach to knowledge—what he called the “art of knowing”— was giving way to the scientific method and modern thought. A Man of Misconceptions traces the rise, success, and eventual fall of this fascinating character as he attempted to come to terms with a changing world. With humor and insight, John Glassie returns Kircher to his rightful place as one of history’s most unforgettable figures.

Author : Paula Findlen
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415940160
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Athanasius Kircher written by Paula Findlen and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Athanasius Kircher
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781498178624
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Volcanos written by Athanasius Kircher and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1669 Edition.

Author : Andrew Robinson
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1805110217
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Man Who Knew Everything written by Andrew Robinson and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one has given the polymath Thomas Young (1773–1829) the all-round examination he so richly deserves—until now. Celebrated biographer Andrew Robinson portrays a man who solved mystery after mystery in the face of ridicule and rejection, and never sought fame. As a physicist, Young challenged the theories of Isaac Newton and proved that light is a wave. As a physician, he showed how the eye focuses and proposed the three-colour theory of vision, only confirmed a century and a half later. As an Egyptologist, he made crucial contributions to deciphering the Rosetta Stone. It is hard to grasp how much Young knew. This biography is the fascinating story of a driven yet modest hero who cared less about what others thought of him than for the joys of an unbridled pursuit of knowledge—with a new foreword by Martin Rees and a new postscript discussing polymathy in the two centuries since the time of Young. It returns this neglected genius to his proper position in the pantheon of great scientific thinkers.