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    Athanasius Kircher (2 May 1602 – 27 November 1680) was a German Jesuit scholar and polymath who published around 40 major works of comparative religion...
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  • Kabbalah was further developed by Athanasius Kircher (1602–1680), a Jesuit priest, Hermeticist and polymath; in 1652, Kircher wrote on the subject in Oedipus...
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    orientalist Andreas Müller [de] once played on Athanasius Kircher. Müller sent some unintelligible text to Kircher with a note explaining that it had come from...
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  • with this name include: Athanasius of Alexandria (ca. 296/298–373), Christian saint, Coptic pope, theologian Pope Athanasius II of Alexandria (died 496)...
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    Oedipus Aegyptiacus (category Athanasius Kircher)
    Oedipus Aegyptiacus is Athanasius Kircher's supreme work of Egyptology. The three full folio tomes of ornate illustrations and diagrams were published...
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    Scrutinium Physico-Medicum (category Athanasius Kircher)
    scholar Athanasius Kircher, containing his observations and theories about the bubonic plague that struck Rome in the summer of 1656. Kircher was the...
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    2018). "Athanasius Kircher". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 25 July 2018. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help) Kircher, Athanasius (1667)....
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  • Alexander Kircher (1867–1939), Austrian-German marine and landscape painter and illustrator Armin Kircher (1966–2015), Austrian composer Athanasius Kircher (1602–1680)...
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    Christianity. Pico's Hermetic syncretism was further developed by Athanasius Kircher, a Jesuit priest, hermeticist and polymath, who wrote extensively...
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    Turris Babel (category Athanasius Kircher)
    Babel (The Tower of Babel) was a 1679 work by the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher. It was the last of his books published during his lifetime. Together...
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    Obeliscus Pamphilius (category Athanasius Kircher)
    Obeliscus Pamphilius is a 1650 work by the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher. It was published in Rome by Ludovico Grignani and dedicated to Pope Innocent...
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    Zodiac to Jophiel along with the Sephira Binah instead of Zaphkiel. Athanasius Kircher names Jophiel as Angelus pulchritudinis, "angel of beauty". According...
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  • and Kabbalah. Pico's Hermetic syncretism was further developed by Athanasius Kircher, a Jesuit priest, hermeticist, and polymath, who wrote extensively...
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    Arca Noë (category Athanasius Kircher)
    ("Noah's Ark") is a book published in 1675 by the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher. It is a study of the biblical story of Noah's Ark, published by the...
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    Polygraphia Nova (category Athanasius Kircher)
    combinatoria arte directa is a 1663 work by the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher. It was one of Kircher's most highly regarded works: 187  and his only complete...
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  • British-Australian scholar best known for his research and publications on Athanasius Kircher as well as several other Germans who had lived in and/or influenced...
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    record of "animal hypnosis" dates back to the year 1646 in a report by Athanasius Kircher, in which he subdued chickens. Tonic immobility (also known as the...
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    China Illustrata (category Athanasius Kircher)
    China Illustrata is the 1667 published book written by the Jesuit Athanasius Kircher (1602–1680) that compiles the 17th-century European knowledge on the...
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    Ark) is an information device that was invented by Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher in the mid 17th century. Its purpose was to enable non musicians to...
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  • sciences they are today) or botany (from herbology). The Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher wrote that "there are as many types of natural magic as there are...
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    the purpose of practical application. This can be contrasted with Athanasius Kircher, who devoted a detailed explanation to the Sigillum Dei in his Oedipus...
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    Mundus Subterraneus (category Athanasius Kircher)
    subterranean world, all its riches") is a scientific textbook written by Athanasius Kircher, and published in 1665. The work depicts Earth's geography through...
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    proposed combustion as the cause, an idea also adopted by the Jesuit Athanasius Kircher (1602–1680), who witnessed eruptions of Mount Etna and Stromboli,...
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    Kim and his father were speakers at the inaugural meeting of the Athanasius Kircher Society. Speaker at the Oxford Union 60 Minutes Accidental Genius...
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    for the magic lantern, which Kircher saw as a further development of his own projection system. Although Athanasius Kircher claimed the Steganographic mirror...
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    been suggested that a Jesuit priest called Athanasius Kircher was the first to observe microorganisms. Kircher was among the first to design magic lanterns...
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    Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae (category Athanasius Kircher)
    Great Art of Light and Shadow") is a 1646 work by the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher. It was dedicated to Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans and published...
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    Pantometrum Kircherianum (category Athanasius Kircher)
    Kircherianum is a 1660 work by the Jesuit scholars Gaspar Schott and Athanasius Kircher. It was dedicated to Christian Louis I, Duke of Mecklenburg and printed...
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    Kircher is a lunar impact crater that is located in the south-southwestern part of the Moon, near the southern limb. In this position the crater appears...
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  • Turini). The author, scientist and inventor, a true baroque polymath, Athanasius Kircher describes the stylus fantasticus in his book, Musurgia Universalis:...
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