Title & Author:

Athanasius Kircher : the last man who knew everything / edited by Paula Findlen.

Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2004.

Description:

xii, 465 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-445) and index.
The last man who knew everything, or did he? Athanasius Kircher, S.J. (1602-80) and his world / Paula Findlen -- Baroque imaginary : the world of Athanasius Kircher, S.J. (1602-80) -- Kircher's Rome / Eugenio Lo Sardo -- Reveries in time of plague : Athanasius Kircher and the plague epidemic of 1656 / Martha Baldwin -- Kircher and his critics : censorial practice and pragmatic disregard in the Society of Jesus / Harald Siebert -- Quasi-optical palingenesis : the circulation of portraits and the image of Kircher / Angela Mayer-Deutsch -- Copts and scholars : Athanasius Kircher in Peirsec's republic of letters / Peter N. Miller -- Four trees, some amulets, and the seventy-two names of God : Kircher reveals the Kabbalah / Daniel Stolzenberg -- Kircher's chronology / Anthony Grafton-- Athanasius Kircher, Giordano Bruno, and the panspermia of the infinite universe / Ingrid D. Rowland -- Father Athanasius on the isthmus of a middle state : understanding Kircher's paleontology / Stephen Jay Gould -- The angel and the compass : Athanasius Kircher's magnetic geography / Micheal John Gorman -- Magnetic language : Athanasius Kircher and communication / Haun Saussy -- Publishing the polygraphy : manuscript, instrument, and print in the work of Athanasius Kircher / Nick Wilding -- Private and public knowledge : Kircher, esotericism and the republic of letters / Noel Malcolm -- Baroque science between the old world and the new world : Father Kircher and his colleague Valentin Stansel (1621-1705) / Carlos Ziller Camenietzki -- A Jesuit's books in the new world : Athanasius Kircher and his American readers / Paula Findlen -- True lies : Athanasius Kircher's China illustrata and the life story of a Mexican mystic / J. Michelle Molina -- Athanasius Kircher's China illustrata (1667) : an apologia pro sua vita / Florence Hsia -- Understanding Kircher in context / Antonella Romano.

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ISBN:

041594015X (alk. paper)
9780415940153 (alk. paper)
0415940168 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415940160 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680.
Kircher, Athanasius 1602-1680
Kircher, Athanasius.
Jesuits Germany Biography.
Jésuites Allemagne Biographies.
Jesuits
Intellectuals Germany Biography.
Learning and scholarship Europe History 17th century.
Intellectuels Allemagne Biographies.
Savoir et érudition Europe Histoire 17e siècle.
Intellectual life
Intellectuals
Learning and scholarship
Geleerden.
Geestesgeschiedenis.
Europe Intellectual life 17th century.
Germany Biography.
Europe Vie intellectuelle 17e siècle.
Allemagne Biographies.
Europe
Germany

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Biographies
History

Added entries:

Findlen, Paula.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 236241
Call No.: CT1098.K46 A738 2004
Status: Available