Athanasius Kircher, a Jesuit priest, was born in Geisa, Germany, on May 2, 1601/2, and died on November 27, 1680, in Rome.
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Frustra vel Pictor, vel Vates dixerit, HIC EST : Et vultum, et nomen terra scit Antipodum.
Jacobus Albanus Ghibbesim, M. D.
in Rom: Sapientia Eloq: Prof.
« In vain, the painter or the poet would say, HERE HE IS: the earth knows both his name and his face to each of its antipodes »
His love of knowledge defines him best. Throughout a life dedicated to the study of multiple sciences, Athanase pondered, explored and created. He decrypted mysterious languages, travelled, and invented machines. A passionate scholar, he wrote around forty books in fifty years. Linguistics, ethics, mathematics, physics, theology, philosophy, music, astronomy, medicine: Kircher was interested in everything and, most of anything, everything that remains to be discovered.
Astrophysics and Space Library
Berlin, Springer, Astrophysics and Space Library, vol. 399, 2014.
Intr. & trad. Giunia Totaro, Berne, P. Lang, 2009.
Leiden, Brill, 2011.
New-York, Routledge, 2004.
Paris, Gallimard, 1987.
Amsterdam, Janssonium et Elizei, 1669.
Coloniae Agrippinae : apud Iodocum Kalcoven, 1643.
Baroque, 12/1987
mis en ligne le 30 juillet 2013, consulté le 13 août 2019, http://journals.openedition.org/baroque/578.
in Revue belge de philologie et d’histoire, tome 85, fasc. 3-4, 2007
Consulté le 13 août 2019, www.persee.fr/doc/rbph_0035-0818_2007_num_85_3_5101
Friends of the Brigham Young University Library, n°33, Provo, Utah, 1989
Consulté le 13 août 2019, https://archive.org/details/aldinecollection33rost
Jérôme Millon (éd.), 1993.
Trad. Daniel Arasse, Paris, Bibliothèque des histoires, Gallimard, 2001