Athanasius Kircher: The Last Man Who Knew Everything - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:RoutledgeISBN-13:9780415940160ISBN-10:415940168UPC:9780415940160Book Category:Science, History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:History, Expeditions & DiscoveriesSize:8.92 x 5.96 x 1.01 inchesWeight:1.422Product ID:SCY6CSFDYE
Athanasius Kircher: The Last Man Who Knew Everything
First published in 2004.Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) -- German Jesuit, occultist, polymath - was one of most curious figures in the history of science. He dabbled in all the mysteries of his time: the heavenly bodies, sound amplification, museology, botany, Asian languages, the pyramids of Egypt -- almost anything incompletely understood. Kircher coined the term electromagnetism, printed...
Language:EnglishPublisher:RoutledgeISBN-13:9780415940160ISBN-10:415940168UPC:9780415940160Book Category:Science, History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:History, Expeditions & DiscoveriesSize:8.92 x 5.96 x 1.01 inchesWeight:1.422Product ID:SCY6CSFDYE
Paula Findlen is Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of Italian History and Director of the Science, Technology and Society Program at Stanford University. She is the author of Possessing Nature and coeditor of Merchants and Marvels: Commerce, Science and Art in Early Modern Europe, published by Routledge.
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