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A man of misconceptions : the life of an eccentric in an age of change / John Glassie.

Glassie, John. (Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781594488719 : HRD
  • ISBN: 1594488711 : HRD
  • Physical Description: xvi, 335 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2012.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-324) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Apologetic Forerunner to this Kircherian Study -- Part One -- Incapable of Resisting the Force -- Inevitable Obstacles -- A Source of Great Fear -- Scenic Proceedings -- Chief Inciter of Action -- Beautiful Reports -- Part Two -- Secret Exotic Matters --Habitation of Hell -- The Magnet -- An Innumerable Multitude of Catoptric Cats -- Four Rivers -- Egyptian Oedipus -- The Admiration of the Ignorant -- Little Worms -- Philosophical Transactions -- Underground World -- Fombom -- Everything -- Part Three -- Not As It Was -- Immune and Exempt -- Mentorella -- Closest of All to the Truth -- The Strangest Development.
Summary, etc.:
Explores the unconventional life of Athanasius Kircher, tracing the rise, success, and eventual fall of the legendary seventeenth-century priest-scientist who was either a genius or raving lunatic.

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Subject: Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680.
Scientists > Germany > Biography.
Intellectuals > Germany > Biography.
Eccentrics and eccentricities > Germany > Biography.
Germany > History > 1618-1648 > Biography.
Germany > History > 1648-1740 > Biography.
Science > Germany > History > 17th century.
Germany > Intellectual life > 17th century.

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