A Study of the Life and Works of Athanasius Kircher, ‘Germanus Incredibilis’: With a Selection of His Unpublished Correspondence and...

A Study of the Life and Works of Athanasius Kircher, ‘Germanus Incredibilis’: With a Selection of His Unpublished Correspondence and...
ISBN-10
9004207120
ISBN-13
9789004207127
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
607
Language
English
Published
2011-08-25
Publisher
BRILL
Author
John Edward Fletcher

Description

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.

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