He had fun
Anthony Grafton: Athanasius Kircher, 7 November 2013
Egyptian Oedipus: Athanasius Kircher and the Secrets of Antiquity
by Daniel Stolzenberg.
Chicago, 307 pp., £35, April 2013,978 0 226 92414 4 Show More
by Daniel Stolzenberg.
Chicago, 307 pp., £35, April 2013,
Exploring the Kingdom of Saturn: Kircher’s Latium and Its Legacy
by Harry Evans.
Michigan, 236 pp., £63.50, July 2012,978 0 472 11815 1 Show More
by Harry Evans.
Michigan, 236 pp., £63.50, July 2012,
“... identify Kircher as a mystical historian and philologist – one who realised that he could not cross the abyss that separated the present from the past by reading texts and grubbing in ruins. And perhaps that realisation set him on a different path: the kind of swooping, dramatic ascent that brought other mystics to their union with the divine. If so, we ... ”