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Bookmark or Share- Athanasius Kircher at Stanford | Kircher and KircherianaWho was Athanasius Kircher? During his lifetime, the Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) was widely regarded as the physical embodiment of all the learning of his age. A refugee from war-torn Germany, Kircher arrived in Rome just after Galileo’s condemnation, where he was heralded as possessing the secret of deciphering hieroglyphics.
- A Jesuit's Letters: Athanasius Kircher And His WorldThe goal of that project was to use data visualizations to get a better sense of the overall shape and structure of early modern networks, especially through correspondence. In the case of Kircher, we wanted to make new use of an existing digital manuscript archive, the Athanasius Kircher Correspondence Project.
- Kircher, Athanasius | SpringerLinkDOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_561-1. 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...
- Athanasius Kircher | Biography, Facts, & ContributionsAthanasius Kircher (born May 2, 1601, Geisa, Abbacy of Fulda [Thuringia, Germany]—died November 27, 1680, Rome [Italy]) was a Jesuit priest and scholar, sometimes called the last Renaissance man, important for his prodigious activity in disseminating knowledge.
- Athanasius Kircher - WikipediaAthanasius Kircher (2 May 1602 – 27 November 1680) [1] was a German Jesuit scholar and polymath who published around 40 major works of comparative religion, geology, and medicine. Kircher has been compared to fellow Jesuit Roger Joseph Boscovich and to Leonardo da Vinci for his vast range of interests, and has been honoured with the title ...
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