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A Study of the Life and Works of Athanasius Kircher, ‘Germanus Incredibilis’
John Edward Fletcher
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With a Selection of his Unpublished Correspondence and an Annotated Translation of his Autobiography
出版BRILL, 2011-08-26
主題Religion / HistoryReligion / PhilosophyBiography & Autobiography / ReligiousReligion / General
ISBN90042163249789004216327
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=QeR5DwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Athanasius Kircher, a German Jesuit in 17th-century Rome, was an enigma. Intensely pious and a prolific author, he was also a polymath fascinated with everything from Egyptian hieroglyphs to the tiny creatures in his microscope.
His correspondence with popes, princes and priests was a window into the restless energy of the period. It showed first-hand the seventeenth-century’s struggle for knowledge in astronomy, microscopy, geology, chemistry, musicology, Egyptology, horology... The list goes on.

Kircher’s books reflect the mind-set of 17th-century scholars - endless curiosity and a substantial larding of naiveté: Kircher scorned alchemy as the wishful thinking of charlatans, yet believed in dragons.

His life and correspondence provide a key to the transition from the Middle Ages to a new scientific age. This book, though unpublished, has been long quoted and referred to. Awaited by scholars and specialists of Kircher, it is finally available with this edition.