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* ''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]. | * ''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]. | * ''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]. | ||
| − | + | * ''Itinerarium extaticum s. opificium coeleste'', Romae: Mascardi, 1656, [http://diglib.hab.de/drucke/6-3-quod-1/start.htm WDB]. | |
| − | * ''Scrutinium physico-medicum contagiosae luis'', 1658, [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HMS.COUNT:1170231 HUL]. | + | * ''Iter extaticum secundum, mundi subterranei prodromus'', Romae, 1657, [http://www.mdz-nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10058472-2 BSB]. |
| − | * ''Iter extaticum coeleste, quo mundi opificium'', 1660, [http://rarebookroom.org/Control/kirite/ RBR]. | + | * ''Scrutinium physico-medicum contagiosae luis'', Romae: Mascardi, 1658, 252 pp, [http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/MPIWG:TRU63BD4 MPIWG], [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HMS.COUNT:1170231 HUL]. |
| − | * ''Diatribe de prodigiosis crucibus'', 1661, [http://rarebookroom.org/Control/kirdia/ RBR]. | + | * ''Pantometrum Kircherianum ... explicatum a G. Schotto'', 1660, 408 pp, [http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/MPIWG:2Q2TG482 MPIWG]. |
| + | * ''Iter extaticum coeleste, quo mundi opificium'', Herbipoli: Endter, 1660, [http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/MPIWG:VW5944VU MPIWG], [http://rarebookroom.org/Control/kirite/ RBR]. | ||
| + | * ''Diatribe de prodigiosis crucibus'', Romae: Deuerlin, 1661, [http://www.mdz-nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10132730-0 BSB], [http://rarebookroom.org/Control/kirdia/ RBR]. | ||
* ''Polygraphia'', 1663, [http://rarebookroom.org/Control/kirpol/ RBR]. | * ''Polygraphia'', 1663, [http://rarebookroom.org/Control/kirpol/ RBR]. | ||
| − | * ''Mundus subterraneus'', 1665, [http://hos.ou.edu/galleries//17thCentury/Kircher/1665/ UOL]. | + | * ''Mundus subterraneus'', 2 vols., Amsterdam: Jansson-Waesberg, 1665; 1678, 366+507 pp, [http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/MPIWG:AK5115CX MPIWG v1], [http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/MPIWG:HUZRWNHD MPIWG v2], [http://hos.ou.edu/galleries//17thCentury/Kircher/1665/ UOL]. |
| − | * ''Obelisci Aegyptiaci, 1666, [http://rarebookroom.org/Control/kirada/ RBR]. | + | * ''Historia Eustachio-Mariana'', Romae: Varesius, 1665, [http://diglib.hab.de/drucke/39-10-hist/start.htm WDB]. |
| + | * ''Arithmologia sive de abditis Numerorum mysteriis'', Romae: Varesi, 1665, 301 pp, [http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/MPIWG:E87T9D29 MPIWG]. | ||
| + | * ''Obelisci Aegyptiaci, Romae: Varesi, 1666, 146 pp, [http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/MPIWG:4AWB3G9G MPIWG], [http://rarebookroom.org/Control/kirada/ RBR]. | ||
| + | * ''China monumentis'', 237 pp, Amsterdam: Meurs, 1667, [http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/MPIWG:PCY3A4XP MPIWG]. | ||
| + | * ''Magneticum naturae regnum sive disceptatio physiologica'', Romae: Lazaris, 1667, 136 pp, [http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/MPIWG:8MV1U8K1 MPIWG]. | ||
| + | * ''Organum mathematicum'', 1668. | ||
| + | * ''Principis Cristiani archetypon politicum'', 1669. | ||
| + | * ''Latium'', Amsterdam: Jansson-Waesberg, 1669, 263 pp, [http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/MPIWG:96KBY05T MPIWG]. | ||
| + | * ''Ars magna sciendi sive combinatorica'', Amsterdam: Waesberge & Weyerstraet, 1669, 482 pp, [http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/MPIWG:VSKPWNWK MPIWG]. | ||
| + | * ''La Chine […] illustrée de plusieurs monuments tant sacrés que profanes..'', 1670. | ||
| + | * ''Ars magna lucis et umbrae'', Amsterdam, 1671, [http://alfama.sim.ucm.es/dioscorides/consulta_libro.asp?ref=B19315430 UCM]. | ||
* ''Phonurgia nova, sive Conjugium mechanico-physicum artis et naturae paranympha philosophia concinnatum'', Kempten: Rudolph Dreherr, 1673, [[Media:Kircher_Athanasius_Phonurgia_nova.pdf|PDF]], [http://digital.slub-dresden.de/en/workview/dlf/1421/11/ SLUB], [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k111869n.r 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: [http://www.digicult.it/digimag/issue-055/athanasius-kircher-arca-musarithmica-and-many-sound-devices/], [http://webistem.com/acoustics2008/acoustics2008/cd1/data/articles/000807.pdf]. | * ''Phonurgia nova, sive Conjugium mechanico-physicum artis et naturae paranympha philosophia concinnatum'', Kempten: Rudolph Dreherr, 1673, [[Media:Kircher_Athanasius_Phonurgia_nova.pdf|PDF]], [http://digital.slub-dresden.de/en/workview/dlf/1421/11/ SLUB], [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k111869n.r 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: [http://www.digicult.it/digimag/issue-055/athanasius-kircher-arca-musarithmica-and-many-sound-devices/], [http://webistem.com/acoustics2008/acoustics2008/cd1/data/articles/000807.pdf]. | ||
| − | * ''Sphinx Mystagoga'', 1676, [http://diglib.hab.de/ | + | * ''Arca Noë'', Amsterdam: Jansson-Waesberg, 1675, [http://books.google.com/books?id=Gqo_AAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover Google]. |
| + | * ''Sphinx Mystagoga'', Amsterdam: Jansson-Waesberg, 1676, [http://diglib.hab.de/drucke/15-9-quod-2f/start.htm WDB]. | ||
| + | * ''Musaeum Collegii Romani Societatis Jesu'', Amsterdam: Jansson-Waesberg, 1679, 66 pp, [http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/MPIWG:FHPG4XSB MPIWG]. | ||
| + | * ''Turris Babel, sive archontologia'', Amsterdam: Jansson-Waesberg, 1679, 357 pp, [http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/MPIWG:5BMWKDPF MPIWG]. | ||
| + | * ''Tariffa Kircheriana sive mensa Pathagorica expansa'', 1679. | ||
| + | * ''Physiologia Kircheriana experimentalis'', Amsterdam: Jansson-Waesberg, 1680, [http://diglib.hab.de/drucke/gw-2f-5-2/start.htm WDB]. | ||
==Literature== | ==Literature== | ||
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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.
- Itinerarium extaticum s. opificium coeleste, Romae: Mascardi, 1656, WDB.
- Iter extaticum secundum, mundi subterranei prodromus, Romae, 1657, BSB.
- Scrutinium physico-medicum contagiosae luis, Romae: Mascardi, 1658, 252 pp, MPIWG, HUL.
- Pantometrum Kircherianum ... explicatum a G. Schotto, 1660, 408 pp, MPIWG.
- Iter extaticum coeleste, quo mundi opificium, Herbipoli: Endter, 1660, MPIWG, RBR.
- Diatribe de prodigiosis crucibus, Romae: Deuerlin, 1661, BSB, RBR.
- Polygraphia, 1663, RBR.
- Mundus subterraneus, 2 vols., Amsterdam: Jansson-Waesberg, 1665; 1678, 366+507 pp, MPIWG v1, MPIWG v2, UOL.
- Historia Eustachio-Mariana, Romae: Varesius, 1665, WDB.
- Arithmologia sive de abditis Numerorum mysteriis, Romae: Varesi, 1665, 301 pp, MPIWG.
- Obelisci Aegyptiaci, Romae: Varesi, 1666, 146 pp, MPIWG, RBR.
- China monumentis, 237 pp, Amsterdam: Meurs, 1667, MPIWG.
- Magneticum naturae regnum sive disceptatio physiologica, Romae: Lazaris, 1667, 136 pp, MPIWG.
- Organum mathematicum, 1668.
- Principis Cristiani archetypon politicum, 1669.
- Latium, Amsterdam: Jansson-Waesberg, 1669, 263 pp, MPIWG.
- Ars magna sciendi sive combinatorica, Amsterdam: Waesberge & Weyerstraet, 1669, 482 pp, MPIWG.
- La Chine […] illustrée de plusieurs monuments tant sacrés que profanes.., 1670.
- Ars magna lucis et umbrae, Amsterdam, 1671, UCM.
- 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].
- Arca Noë, Amsterdam: Jansson-Waesberg, 1675, Google.
- Sphinx Mystagoga, Amsterdam: Jansson-Waesberg, 1676, WDB.
- Musaeum Collegii Romani Societatis Jesu, Amsterdam: Jansson-Waesberg, 1679, 66 pp, MPIWG.
- Turris Babel, sive archontologia, Amsterdam: Jansson-Waesberg, 1679, 357 pp, MPIWG.
- Tariffa Kircheriana sive mensa Pathagorica expansa, 1679.
- Physiologia Kircheriana experimentalis, Amsterdam: Jansson-Waesberg, 1680, 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.
