Athanasius Kircher: The Last Man Who Knew EverythingPaula Findlen Routledge, 2004 M08 2 - 480 páginas 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.- |
Contenido
Introduction | 1 |
The Art of Being Kircher | 47 |
1 Kirchers Rome | 49 |
Athanasius Kircher and the Plague Epidemic of 1656 | 61 |
Censorial Practice and Pragmatic Disregard in the Society of Jesus | 76 |
The Circulation of Portraits and the Image of Kircher | 102 |
The Sciences of Erudition | 126 |
Athanasius Kircher in Peirescs Republic of Letters | 128 |
Communicating Knowledge | 250 |
Athanasius Kircher and Communication | 252 |
Manuscript Instrument and Print in the Work of Athanasius Kircher | 273 |
Kircher Esotericism and the Republic of Letters | 286 |
The Global Shape of Knowledge | 297 |
Father Kircher and His Colleague Valentin Stansel 16211705 | 299 |
Athanasius Kircher and His American Readers | 316 |
Athanasius Kirchers China illustrata and the Life Story of a Mexican Mystic | 351 |
Kircher Reveals the Kabbalah | 143 |
7 Kirchers Chronology | 165 |
The Mysteries of Man and the Cosmos | 181 |
8 Athanasius Kircher Giordano Bruno and the Panspermia of the Infinite Universe | 183 |
Understanding Kirchers Paleontology | 198 |
Athanasius Kirchers Magnetic Geography | 229 |
An Apologia Pro Vita Sua | 367 |
Epilogue | 388 |
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Notes on Contributors | 433 |
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