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'''Athanasius Kircher''' (1601 or 1602 – 1680) was a 17th-century German Jesuit scholar. | '''Athanasius Kircher''' (1601 or 1602 – 1680) was a 17th-century German Jesuit scholar. | ||
; Works | ; Works | ||
| + | * ''Ars Magnesia'', 1631. | ||
* ''[http://rarebookroom.org/Control/kirlin/ Lingua aegyptiaca restituta]'', 1644. | * ''[http://rarebookroom.org/Control/kirlin/ Lingua aegyptiaca restituta]'', 1644. | ||
* ''[http://rarebookroom.org/Control/kirart/ Ars magna lucis et vmbrae in decem libros digesta]'', 1646. | * ''[http://rarebookroom.org/Control/kirart/ Ars magna lucis et vmbrae in decem libros digesta]'', 1646. | ||
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Kircher, Phonurgia nova, 1673. View online.
Athanasius Kircher (1601 or 1602 – 1680) was a 17th-century German Jesuit scholar.
- Works
- Ars Magnesia, 1631.
- Lingua aegyptiaca restituta, 1644.
- Ars magna lucis et vmbrae in decem libros digesta, 1646.
- Musurgia vniuersalis, 1650.
- Obeliscvs pamphilivs, 1650. [1]
- Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 vols., 1652-54. Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3.
- Scrutinium physico-medicum contagiosae luis, 1658.
- Iter extaticum coeleste, quo mundi opificium, 1660.
- Diatribe de prodigiosis crucibus, 1661.
- Polygraphia, 1663.
- Mundus subterraneus, 1665.
- Obelisci Aegyptiaci, 1666.
- Phonurgia nova, sive conjugium mechanico-physicum artis & natvrae paranympha phonosophia concinnatum, Kempten: Rudolph Dreherr, 1673. (in Latin). 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. Scans online: [2], [3]. Commentaries: [4], [5].
- Sphinx Mystagoga, 1676.
- Literature
- 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.
