Athanasius Kircher, a German Jesuit in 17th-century Rome, was an extraordinary polymath.

The German Jesuit Athanasius Kircher did not die until 27 November 1680, at the ripeold age of seventy-eight or seventy-nine.2 His body was buried in Il Gesù and his heart inthe Marian shrine of Mentorella, south of Rome.

Situating Kircher in the social world of baroque Rome, with its scholars, artists, patrons, and censors, Stolzenberg shows how Kircher’s study of ancient paganism depended on the circulation of texts, artifacts, and people between ...

Athanasius Kircher (1602 - 80) stand out as one of the last all-encompassing minds.

This book delves into three selected works where Kircher unveils his conceptualization of the Earth, termed the 'Geocosmos,' treated magnetism as a cosmic and spiritual force, and embarks on a cosmic exploration from Earth to the stars.

"This book is a non-fiction biography of Athanasius Kircher, a 17th-century Jesuit, scientist and polymath.

... Kircher's conceptually based system as " incongru- ous , " adding , " It was perhaps the lack of internal coherency in this system of concepts that induced Kircher to abandon this line of research , and devote himself to the more modest ...

Kircher's view was broad: he wrote of the larger strategies, often accompanied by sketch maps in the margins, as well as of the personal experiences; of the politics of Army life as well as of his friends and their daily lives.