Athanasius Kircher

Kircher, Phonurgia nova, 1673. View online.

Athanasius Kircher (1601/02 – 1680) was a German Jesuit scholar.

Works

(in Latin unless noted)

Ars Magnesia, 1631, Gallica.
Lingua aegyptiaca restituta, 1644, RBR.
Ars magna lucis et vmbrae in decem libros digesta, 1646, RBR.
Musurgia vniuersalis, 1650, RBR.
Obeliscvs pamphilivs, 1650, RBR, IA
Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 vols., 1652-54, MPIWG, Google, vol 1, Google, vol 2, Google, vol 3.
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 & natvrae paranympha phonosophia 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.

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Edward Fletcher, A Study of the Life and Works of Athanasius Kircher, ‘Germanus Incredibilis’: With a Selection of his Unpublished Correspondence and an Annotated Translation of his Autobiography, ed.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.