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    Turris 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...
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    מִגְדַּל בָּבֶל, romanized: Miḡdal Bāḇel; Ancient Greek: Πύργος τῆς Βαβέλ, romanized: Pýrgos tês Babél; Latin: Turris Babel. Hebrew: שִׁנְעָר, romanized: Šinʿār;...
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    political institutions of the day.[citation needed] "[I]t is clear from his "Turris Babel", "Mythologia Christiana", and other works, that he considered the manifestos...
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    Kircher (who never visited Egypt) depicted the Sphinx as a Roman statue (Turris Babel, 1679). Johannes Helferich's (1579) Sphinx is a pinched-face, round-breasted...
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    Turris Babel: with typical eclecticism, Kircher illustrates the impossibility of the Tower of Babel having reached the moon, 1679...
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    of Christianopolis", "Beschreibung des Staates Christenstadt") (1619) Turris Babel (1619) De curiositatis pernicie syntagma (1620) Esoteric Christianity...
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    scholarship at the time. Together with its sister volume Turris Babel (“The Tower of Babel”), Arca Noë presented a complete intellectual project to demonstrate...
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  • Johannes Valentinus Andreae Reipublicae Christianopolitanae descriptio Turris Babel Jacob Boehme – De Tribus Principiis (On the Three Principles of Divine...
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    speculative sources range from Fritz Lang's Metropolis to Athanasius Kircher's Turris Babel. During the competition period, the state dissolved formerly independent...
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    Tènébres (2008, Voice, piano and optional film; text from Baudelaire) Turris Babel (2009, pre-study, Female quintet) Love Song (2009, Male quintet and string...
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    in Aedificatione Turris Babel ("Peleg or the Dispersion of Nations and the Division of Lands Made in the Building of the Tower of Babel"), was devoted to...
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    Ham. Such speculative theories were to be developed in his later works Turris Babel and Arca Noë.: 44  During his countryside walks, Kircher was searching...
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    including Prodromus Coptus (1636), Lingua Aegyptiaca Restituta (1643) and Turris Babel (1679). He had also studied the Voynich manuscript, although he apparently...
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    nouem libros circa historiam Mosis de diluuio, Arca Noe, aedificatione turris Babel; Confusione linguarum, alijsque vsque ad Vocationem Abrahae, id est,...
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    on top of a larger structure or building. Old English torr is from Latin turris via Old French tor. The Latin term together with Greek τύρσις was loaned...
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  • ricerca di Jules Verne Ion Hobana (Romania); Lovecraft S. Fusco & G. de Turris (Italy) Fan: Waldemar Kumming (West Germany); Andrzej Pruszyński (Poland)...
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    Inscription and the Inscription of Kurigalzu the Son of Kadashmanharbe", Babel und Bibel 6, edited by Leonid E. Kogan, N. Koslova, S. Loesov and S. Tishchenko...
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    Stefanini, Loretta Ghelfi and Paola Malaguti, Cremona and Bologna 1998 (Turris), 2005, ISBN 88-7929-160-2 "Otello Bignami", in Cozio Carteggio, Tarisio...
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    and the Syrian Campaigns of SuppiluliumaI: New Pieces for the Puzzle". Babel und Bibel. 6. Eisenbrauns. doi:10.5325/j.ctv1bxh5gx.19. ISBN 978-1-575-06228-0...
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