A man of misconceptions : the life of an eccentric in an age of change

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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.