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Athanasius Kircher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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John Kircher, the father of Athanasius, had studied philosophy and theology at Mainz, without, however, embracing the priestly calling. As soon as he had obtained the doctor's degree in the latter faculty, he went to lecture on theology in the Benedictine house at Seligenstadt.
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Soon after his arrival in Rome in 1635, Jesuit teacher, inventor, and researcher Athanasius Kircher commissioned this slate engraved with scales and charts that his students could use to plot the courses of stars and perform other astronomical calculations.
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The Correspondence of Athanasius Kircher ... Athanasius Kircher's China Illustrata ... Athanasius Kircher's Magnetic Clock...
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Kircher's Works Athanasius Kircher's version of the tower of Babel ... Pantometrum Kircherianum (Wurzburg, 1669), a geometrical work describes a geometric calculator invented by the extraordinary Jesuit scientist Athanasius Kircher.
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In May 2002, a group of distinguished scholars, writers and historians gathered at the New York Institute of the Humanities to address a burning question: "Was Athanasius Kircher the coolest guy ever, or what?" If the 17th-century German Jesuit polymath himself had been in attendance, he likely would have answered in...
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The seventeenth-century Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher created a museum of curiosities, antiquities and inventions in the Collegio Romano, and published over thirty books on virtually every imaginable domain of knowledge.
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