Athanasius Kircher
1601-1680
German scholar who was renowned for his prolific writings on a variety of academic subjects. Kircher was the youngest of nine children, the son of a doctor of divinity. He...
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Athanasius Kircher has a fair claim to have been the most learned German-born writer of his century: his works on Egyptology, music, optics, geology, linguistics, and comparative religion are all defi...
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Athanasius Kircher
Athanasius Kircher