アタナシウス・キルヒャーの生涯と著作 A Study of the Life and Works of Athanasius Kircher, 'Germanus Incredibilis' : With a Selection of His Unpublished Correspondence and an Annotated Tra

Fletcher, John Edward/ Fletcher, Elizabeth (EDT)

Brill Academic Pub（2011/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 607 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004207127
• DDC分類 B

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Athanasius Kircher, a German Jesuit in 17th-century Rome, was an enigma. Intensely pious and a prolific author, he was also a polymath fascinated with everything from Egyptian hieroglyphs to the tiny creatures in his microscope.
His correspondence with popes, princes and priests was a window into the restless energy of the period. It showed first-hand the seventeenth-century's struggle for knowledge in astronomy, microscopy, geology, chemistry, musicology, Egyptology, horology... The list goes on.

Kircher's books reflect the mind-set of 17th-century scholars - endless curiosity and a substantial larding of naiveté: Kircher scorned alchemy as the wishful thinking of charlatans, yet believed in dragons.

His life and correspondence provide a key to the transition from the Middle Ages to a new scientific age. This book, though unpublished, has been long quoted and referred to. Awaited by scholars and specialists of Kircher, it is finally available with this edition.