6/22/2023 0 Comments A Study of the Life and Works of Athanasius Kircher, Germanus... by John Edward Fletcher![]() ![]() He published not only experiments and observations which were progressive and new in his time but also some theories that are considered false by today’s science and were considered false already by many of his contemporaries. Wiesbaden: Edizioni del Mondo, 1974), and as a Baroque polymath standing between Renaissance and modern episteme, but also as a “man of misconceptions” (Glassie, A man of misconceptions: The life of an eccentric in an age of change. New York/London: Routledge, 2004), as “the master of hundred arts” (Reilly, Athanasius Kircher S.J., Master of Hundred Arts 1602–1680. He is often described as “the last man who knew everything” (Findlen, Athanasius Kircher. ![]() Athanasius Kircher was a Jesuit, a Baroque polymath, and an author of more than 30 works on various subjects ranging from hieroglyphics, time measurement, magnetism, music, and optics through astronomy, history, and the cultures of China and Egypt to universal language, Noah’s Ark, and the Tower of Babel. ![]()
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