Athanasius Kircher

Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) was a German Jesuit priest and polymath who spent most of his life in Rome. Kircher published a large number of large books on a very wide variety of subjects, such as Egyptology, geology, and music theory. Kircher's greatest work is Oedipus Aegyptiacus (1652-54) a vast study of Egyptology and comparative religion. He was not always critical, and he had a tendency to fill the holes in his knowledge with mere speculations. Nevertheless, his works, written in Latin, had a wide circulation in the seventeenth century, and they contributed to the dissemination of scientific information to a wider circle of readers.

... Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web www.wikilookup.info   This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.