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| − | * ''Ars Magnesia'', 1631, [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k111088g Gallica]. | + | * ''Ars Magnesia'', Herbipoli: Zinck, 1631, 63 pp, [http://diglib.hab.de/drucke/xb-3528/start.htm WDB], [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k111088g Gallica]. |
| − | * ''Lingua aegyptiaca restituta'', 1644, [http://rarebookroom.org/Control/kirlin/ RBR]. | + | * ''Primitiae gnomoniciae catroptricae'', Avenione: Pivot, 1635, 228 pp, [http://www.mdz-nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10052940-7 BSB]. |
| − | * ''Ars magna lucis et umbrae in decem libros digesta'', 1646, | + | * ''Prodromus coptus sive aegyptiacus'', Romae: Fide, 1636, 338 pp, [http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/MPIWG:XKQGWN9Q MPIWG]. |
| − | * '' | + | * ''Specula Melitensis encyclica, hoc est syntagma novum instrumentorum physico-mathematicorum'', 1637. |
| − | * '' | + | * ''Magnes sive de arte magnetica'', Romae: Grignani, 1641, 916 pp, [http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/MPIWG:MANTPCWE MPIWG]. |
| − | * ''Oedipus | + | * ''Lingua aegyptiaca restituta'', Romae: Scheus, 1644, 622 pp,, [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1097707 Gallica], [http://rarebookroom.org/Control/kirlin/ RBR]. |
| + | * ''Ars magna lucis et umbrae in decem libros digesta'', Romae: Scheus, 1646, 935 pp, [http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/MPIWG:9WZNM3XV MPIWG], [http://lhldigital.lindahall.org/cdm/ref/collection/color/id/23013 LHL], [http://rarebookroom.org/Control/kirart/ RBR]. | ||
| + | * ''Obeliscus pamphilius'', Romae: Grignani, 1650, 560 pp, [http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/MPIWG:9KHR7XGD MPIWG], [http://archive.org/details/athanasiikircher00kirc IA], [http://rarebookroom.org/Control/kirobe/ RBR]. | ||
| + | * ''Musurgia universalis, sive ars magna consoni et dissoni'', Romae: Corbelletti, and Grignani, 1650, 690 pp, [http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/MPIWG:U2VY3FA3 MPIWG], [http://rarebookroom.org/Control/kirmus/ RBR]. | ||
| + | * ''Oedipus aegyptiacus'', 3 vols., Romae, 1652-54, 424+440+546+592 pp, [http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/MPIWG:K8RVEX3B MPIWG v1], [http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/kircher1652bd1 UH v1], [http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/MPIWG:T1B23NT6 MPIWG v2/1], [http://books.google.com/books?id=XjfzMnomDQoC&printsec=frontcover Google v2/1], [http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/MPIWG:N6QWAVDH MPIWG v2/2], [http://books.google.com/books?id=zXWh65oYZ4EC&printsec=frontcover Google v2/2], [http://books.google.com/books?id=pDK2CF_y2nkC&printsec=frontcover Google v3]. | ||
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* ''Scrutinium physico-medicum contagiosae luis'', 1658, [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HMS.COUNT:1170231 HUL]. | * ''Scrutinium physico-medicum contagiosae luis'', 1658, [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HMS.COUNT:1170231 HUL]. | ||
* ''Iter extaticum coeleste, quo mundi opificium'', 1660, [http://rarebookroom.org/Control/kirite/ RBR]. | * ''Iter extaticum coeleste, quo mundi opificium'', 1660, [http://rarebookroom.org/Control/kirite/ RBR]. | ||
Revision as of 13:10, 27 November 2014
Kircher, Phonurgia nova, 1673. View online.
Athanasius Kircher (1601/02 – 1680) was a German Jesuit scholar.
Works
(in Latin unless noted)
- Ars Magnesia, Herbipoli: Zinck, 1631, 63 pp, WDB, Gallica.
- Primitiae gnomoniciae catroptricae, Avenione: Pivot, 1635, 228 pp, BSB.
- Prodromus coptus sive aegyptiacus, Romae: Fide, 1636, 338 pp, MPIWG.
- Specula Melitensis encyclica, hoc est syntagma novum instrumentorum physico-mathematicorum, 1637.
- Magnes sive de arte magnetica, Romae: Grignani, 1641, 916 pp, MPIWG.
- Lingua aegyptiaca restituta, Romae: Scheus, 1644, 622 pp,, Gallica, RBR.
- Ars magna lucis et umbrae in decem libros digesta, Romae: Scheus, 1646, 935 pp, MPIWG, LHL, RBR.
- Obeliscus pamphilius, Romae: Grignani, 1650, 560 pp, MPIWG, IA, RBR.
- Musurgia universalis, sive ars magna consoni et dissoni, Romae: Corbelletti, and Grignani, 1650, 690 pp, MPIWG, RBR.
- Oedipus aegyptiacus, 3 vols., Romae, 1652-54, 424+440+546+592 pp, MPIWG v1, UH v1, MPIWG v2/1, Google v2/1, MPIWG v2/2, Google v2/2, Google v3.
- Scrutinium physico-medicum contagiosae luis, 1658, HUL.
- Iter extaticum coeleste, quo mundi opificium, 1660, RBR.
- Diatribe de prodigiosis crucibus, 1661, RBR.
- Polygraphia, 1663, RBR.
- Mundus subterraneus, 1665, UOL.
- Obelisci Aegyptiaci, 1666, RBR.
- Phonurgia nova, sive Conjugium mechanico-physicum artis et naturae paranympha philosophia concinnatum, Kempten: Rudolph Dreherr, 1673, PDF, SLUB, Gallica. Early book on sound, acoustics and music; describes acoustic apparatuses and phenomena such as the tuba stentorophonica [the loud trumpet], the statua citofonica [the talking statue], or the Aeolian harp. Commentaries: [1], [2].
- Sphinx Mystagoga, 1676, WDB.
Literature
- Joscelyn Godwin, Athanasius Kircher: A Renaissance Man and the Quest for Lost Knowledge, Thames & Hudson, 1979, 96 pp, Log.
- Paula Findlen (ed.), Athanasius Kircher: The Last Man Who Knew Everything, Routledge, 2003, PDF.
- John Edward Fletcher, A Study of the Life and Works of Athanasius Kircher, ‘Germanus Incredibilis’: With a Selection of his Unpublished Correspondence and an Annotated Translation of his Autobiography, ed. Elizabeth Fletcher, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011, 656 pp, Log.
- Daniel Stolzenberg, Egyptian Oedipus: Athanasius Kircher and the Secrets of Antiquity, University of Chicago Press, 2013, 320 pp.
- Daniel Stolzenberg, "Athanasius Kircher and the Hieroglyphic Sphinx", Public Domain Review, Sep 2014, HTML.
- Roberto Buonanno, The Stars of Galileo Galilei and the Universal Knowledge of Athanasius Kircher, Springer, 2014, PDF.
