Kircher, Athanasius 1602-1680

The vulcano's, or, Burning and fire-vomiting mountains, famous in the world, with their remarkables collected for the most part out of Kircher's Subterraneous world, and exposed to more general view in English : upon the relation of the late wonderful and prodigious eruptions of Ætna, thereby to occasion greater admirations of the wonders of nature (and of the God of nature) in the mighty element of fire by Athanasius Kircher ( Book )
84 editions published between 1660 and 2005 in 5 languages and held by 272 libraries worldwide
Mundus Subterraneus is the most geological of Kircher's works. This book is notable for containing early plates of the Earth's interior, and views of spectacular eruptions of Mt. Vesuvius and Mt. Etna. Plato's Atlantis is represented as an island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Kircher also examines water and fire cycles--providing detailed explanations of hydrophylacia (modern aquifers) and pyrophylacia (modern magma chambers). Furthermore, this is one of the first books dealing with speleology. Kircher's book is far-ranging in his attempt to avoid the split between science, philosophy and religion.

China illustrata by Athanasius Kircher ( Book )
66 editions published between 1667 and 2010 in 7 languages and held by 271 libraries worldwide

Musurgia universalis by Athanasius Kircher ( Book )
104 editions published between 1550 and 2006 in 5 languages and held by 224 libraries worldwide

Phonurgia nova by Athanasius Kircher ( Book )
43 editions published between 1673 and 2006 in 4 languages and held by 219 libraries worldwide

Athanasii Kircheri Fvldensis Magnes, siue, De arte magnetica opvs tripartitvm : quo præterqvam qvod vniversa magnetis natura, eiusque in omnibus artibus & scientijs vsus noua methodo explicetur : é viribus quoque & prodigiosis effectibus magneticarum, aliarumque abditarum naturæ motionum in elementis, lapidibus, plantis, animalibus elucescentium, multa hucusque incognita naturæ arcana per physica, medica, chymica & mathematica omnis generis experimenta recluduntur by Athanasius Kircher ( Book )
57 editions published between 1641 and 2004 in 3 languages and held by 184 libraries worldwide

Physiologia Kircheriana experimentalis qua summa argumentorum multitudine & varietate naturalium rerum scientia per experimenta physica, mathematica, medica, chymica, musica, magnetica, mechanica comprobatur atque stabilitur by Athanasius Kircher ( Book )
7 editions published in 1680 in Latin and held by 151 libraries worldwide

Athanasii Kircheri Magneticum naturæ regnum, sive, Disceptatio physiologica de triplici in natura rerum magnete juxta triplicem ejusdem naturæ gradum digesto inanimato, animato, sensitivo qua occultæ prodigiosarum quarundam motionum vires & proprietates, quæ in triplici naturæ oeconomia nonnullis in corporibus noviter detectis observantur, in apertam lucem eruuntur, & luculentis argumentis, experientia duce, demonstrantur by Athanasius Kircher ( Book )
29 editions published in 1667 in Latin and Undetermined and held by 147 libraries worldwide

Turris Babel, sive Archontologia qua primo priscorum post diluvium hominum vita, mores rerumque gestarum magnitudo, secundo Turris fabrica civitatumque extructio, confusio linguarum by Athanasius Kircher ( Book )
30 editions published between 1678 and 2004 in Latin and Undetermined and held by 123 libraries worldwide

Scrutinium physico-medicum contagiosae luis, quae dicitur pestis by Athanasius Kircher ( Book )
58 editions published between 1658 and 2005 in 4 languages and held by 104 libraries worldwide
Text was the first treatise to "state explicitly the theory of contagion by animalculae as the cause of infectious disease"; Cf. Garrison-Morton.

R.P. Athanasii Kircheri e. Societate Jesu iter exstaticum coeleste, quo mundi opificium, id est, cœlestis expansi, siderumque tam errantium, quàm fixorum natura, vires, proprietates, singulorumque compositio et structura, ab infimo telluris globo, usque ad ultima mundi confinia, per ficti raptus integumentum explorata, novâ hypothesi exponitur ad veritatem, interlocutoribus Cosmiele et Theodidacto: hâc secundâ editione prælusionibus & scholiis illustratum; ac schematismis necessariis, qui deerant, exornatum; nec non à mendis, quæ in primam romanam editionem irrepserant, expurgatum, ipso auctore annuente by Athanasius Kircher ( Book )
46 editions published between 1656 and 2004 in Latin and Undetermined and held by 99 libraries worldwide