Athanasius Kircher: The Last Man who Knew EverythingPaula Findlen Psychology Press, 2004 - 465 pages First published in 2004.Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) -- German Jesuit, occultist, polymath - was one of most curious figures in the history of science. He dabbled in all the mysteries of his time: the heavenly bodies, sound amplification, museology, botany, Asian languages, the pyramids of Egypt -- almost anything incompletely understood. Kircher coined the term electromagnetism, printed Sanskrit for the first time in a Western book, and built a famous museum collection. His wild, beautifully illustrated books are sometimes visionary, frequently wrong, and yet compelling documents in the history of ideas. They are being rediscovered in our own time. This volume contains new essays on Kircher and his world by leading historians and historians of science, including Stephen Jay Gould, Ingrid Rowland, Anthony Grafton, Daniel Stoltzenberg, Paula Findlen, and Barbara Stafford.- |
Table des matières
Kirchers Rome | 53 |
Reverie in Time of Plague Athanasius Kircher and the Plague Epidemic of 1656 | 65 |
Kircher and His Critics Censorial Practice and Pragmatic Disregard in the Society of Jesus | 81 |
QuasiOptical Palingenesis The Circulation of Portraits and the Image of Kircher | 107 |
The Sciences of Erudition | 133 |
Copts and Scholars Athanasius Kircher in Peirescs Republic of Letters | 135 |
Four Trees Some Amulets and the Seventytwo Names of God Kircher Reveals the Kabbalah | 151 |
Kirchers Chronology | 173 |
Magnetic Language Athanasius Kircher and Communication | 265 |
Publishing the Polygraphy Manuscript Instrument and Print in the Work of Athanasius Kircher | 285 |
Private and Public Knowledge Kircher Esotericism and the Republic of Letters | 299 |
The Global Shape of Knowledge | 311 |
Baroque Science between the Old and the New World Father Kircher and His Colleague Valentin Stansel 16211705 | 313 |
A Jesuits Books in the New World Athanasius Kircher and His American Readers | 331 |
True Lies Athanasius Kirchers China Illustrata and the Life Story of a Mexican Mystic | 367 |
Athanasius Kirchers China Illustrata 1667 An Apologia Pro Vita Sua | 385 |
The Mysteries of Man and the Cosmos | 191 |
Athanasius Kircher Giordano Bruno and the Panspermia of the Infinite Universe | 193 |
Father Athanasius on the Isthmus of a Middle State Understanding Kirchers Paleontology | 209 |
The Angel and the Compass Athanasius Kirchers Magnetic Geography | 241 |
Communicating Knowledge | 263 |
Understanding Kircher in Context | 407 |
Bibliography | 423 |
Notes on Contributors | 449 |
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