Athanasius Kircher, S.J. (1602 - 1680) Master of a Hundred Arts The Sallustian obleisk (First Century BC) which was interpreted by Athanasius Kircher Bernini's baby elephant mounted by the Minervan obleisk (discovered in 1665) and interpreted by Athanasius Kircher Kircher's Works Pantometrum Kircherianum (Wurzburg, 1669), a geometrical work describes a geometric calculator invented by the ...

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The World of Athanasius Kircher, S. J. (1602-80) The seventeenth-century Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher, who created a museum of curiosities, antiquities and inventions in the Collegio Romano and published over thirty books on virtually every imaginable domain of knowledge, has recently become the subject of renewed interest. Among other things, his museum has been reconstructed in David ...

Athanasius Kircher, S.J. (1602-1680) Site map Timeline Reconstruction Acknowledgements Portrait of Athanasius Kircher Athanasius Kircher's 1641 book on magnetism, the Magnes, finally made public the secret mechanism of the magnetic clock and disabled it as a potential argument for the motion of the earth. How much, we might wonder, did Kircher know about Line's clock The author of the book of ...

CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE MUSEUM OF JURASSIC TECHNOLOGY COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITIONS _________________________ The World is Bound With Secret Knots The Life and Works of Athanasius Kircher _________________________________________________ The Life of Athanasius Kircher A Botanical Clock Propogation Horns A Magnetic Oracle Subterranean Waters and Fires The Idol of Fombum The Vision of St. Eustace The ...

Kircher, Athanasius. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...