The last Book is devoted to the design and construction of marvellous inventions using light.
Although Athanasius Kircher is known for a number of innovations, the vast majority of his output consisted of compilations of already known material.
A Study of the Life and Works of Athanasius Kircher, 'Germanus Incredibilis': With a Selection of His Unpublished Correspondence and an Annotated Translation of His Autobiography by John Edward Fletcher and Elizabeth Fletcher (Aries Book: Brill Academic) .
Athanasius Kircher : biography May 2, 1601/1602 – November 27/November 28, 1680 Athanasius Kircher, S.J., (1601 or 1602–1680) (sometimes erroneously spelled Kirchner) was a 17th-century German Jesuit scholar who published around 40 works, most notably in the fields of oriental studies, geology, and medicine. Introduction et traduction française et italienne, Bern: Peter Lang 2009, p. 430 ISBN 978-3-03911-793-2; Jean-Pierre Thiollet, Je m'appelle Byblos, Párizs (2005). Athanasius Kircher (2 May 1602 – 28 November 1680) was a German Jesuit scholar and polymath who published around 40 major works, most notably in the fields of comparative religion, geology, and medicine.Kircher has been compared to fellow Jesuit Roger Boscovich and to Leonardo da Vinci for his enormous range of interests, and has been honoured with the title "Master of a Hundred Arts".
The Athanasius Kircher Society is a wonderful sister site to Boing Boing. Indeed, some inventions have been incorrectly attributed to him. Kircher's Works Pantometrum Kircherianum (Wurzburg, 1669), a geometrical work describes a geometric calculator invented by the extraordinary Jesuit scientist Athanasius Kircher. Among his inventions, Fr. A Man of Misconceptions: The Life of an Eccentric in an Age of Change is a biography written by John Glassie about Athanasius Kircher, a 17th-century German Jesuit scholar, scientist, author, and inventor. Athanasius Kircher (latinisiert auch: Athanasius Kircherus Fuldensis; * 2.Mai 1602 in Geisa im Hochstift Fulda; † 27.
His interests ranged widely over both the humanities and the sciences, and his most significant contribution was …
Athanasius Kircher was a devout Jesuit priest working in Rome and his book bears the imprimatur of the Jesuit order, so inevitably a compromise (or fudge) was necessary. ... as shown by the 2004 release of a 464-page book titled Athanasius Kircher: The Last Man Who Knew Everything. L'écriture d'un jésuite entre vérité et invention au seuil de l'œuvre.
Athanasius Kircher. Totaro Giunia, L'autobiographie d'Athanasius Kircher. Jahrhunderts, der die meiste Zeit seines Lebens am Collegium Romanum in Rom lehrte und forschte. Athanasius Kircher, a German Jesuit in 17th-century Rome, was an enigma. Alongside Athanasius Kirchner, many scholars were developing similar inventions. A seventeenth century composition machine, the “musical arch”, is described in Athanasius Kircher’s (1602-1680) Musurgia Universalis (1650).
Athanasius Kircher, I learned, was a 17th century Jesuit priest, scholar, inventor, writer and scientist interested in a variety of things, including languages, magnetism, geology, egyptology, acoustics, religion, and pretty much any other phenomenon he encountered in the world. Research Project. Wouldn’t you like to compose music? For this true Renaissance man, the whole world was a glorious appearance of God waiting to be explored. With his enormous range of scholarly pursuits, the 17th-century polymath Athanasius Kircher (2 May, 1602 – 28 November, 1680) has been hailed as the last Renaissance man and “the master of a hundred arts.” He was as well considered one of the patrons of the Hermit Foundation and the Center for Metamedia Plasy. Kircher was a Jesuit and an archeologist, a phenomenal linguist and an avid collector of scientific instruments. In the same year he explained a kind of symbolic logic in another book Ars magna sciendi (Amsterdam 1669) and in a later book Tariffa Kircheriana (Rome, 1679) is a set of mathematical tables. Athanasius Kircher, Jesuit priest and scholar, important for his prodigious activity in disseminating knowledge.