Kircher, Athanasius 1602-1680
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| Works: | 2,453 works in 4,326 publications in 6 languages and 18,116 library holdings |
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| Genres: | History Biography Criticism, interpretation, etc Exhibition catalogs Conference papers and proceedings Records and correspondence Portraits Encyclopedias Maps |
| Roles: | Author, Dedicatee, Honoree, Composer, Contributor, Creator, Other, Collector, Author in quotations or text abstracts, Correspondent, Author of introduction, Bibliographic antecedent, Illustrator, Editor, Arranger, Artist, wat, Attributed name, Thesis advisor, Recipient |
| Classifications: | Q111, 509 |
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Most widely held works about
Athanasius Kircher
- A study of the life and works of Athanasius Kircher, "Germanus incredibilis" : with a selection of his unpublished correspondence and an annotated translation of his autobiography by John Edward Fletcher( )
- Where tigers are at home by Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès( Book )
- A man of misconceptions : the life of an eccentric in an age of change by John Glassie( Book )
- Athanasius Kircher : the last man who knew everything by Paula Findlen( Book )
- Athanasius Kircher : a Renaissance man and the quest for lost knowledge by Joscelyn Godwin( Book )
- The stars of Galileo Galilei and the universal knowledge of Athanasius Kircher by Roberto Buonanno( )
- The man who knew everything : the strange life of Athanasius Kircher by Marilee Peters( Book )
- Athanasius Kircher's theatre of the world : the life and work of the last man to search for universal knowledge by Joscelyn Godwin( Book )
- Baroque antiquity : archaeological imagination in early modern Europe by Victor Plahte Tschudi( Book )
- The ecstatic journey : Athanasius Kircher in Baroque Rome by Ingrid D Rowland( Book )
- Mundus combinatus : Studien zur Struktur der barocken Universalwissenschaft am Beispiel Athanasius Kirchers SJ (1602-1680) by Thomas Leinkauf( Book )
- The great art of knowing : the baroque encyclopedia of Athanasius Kircher by Daniel Stolzenberg( Book )
- Athanasius Kircher und seine Beziehungen zum gelehrten Europa seiner Zeit( Book )
- Prodomo apologetico alli studi chircheriani by Gioseffo Petrucci( Book )
- Ars magna musices : Athanasius Kircher und die Universalität der Musik : Vorträge des deutsch-italienischen Symposiums aus Anlass des 400. Geburtstages von Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) : Musikgeschichtliche Abteilung des Deutschen Historischen Instituts in Rom, in Zusammenarbeit mit der Hochschule für Musik "Carl Maria von Weber" in Dresden : Rom, Deutsches Historisches Institut, 16.-18. Oktober 2002 by Deutsch-italienische Symposium aus Anlass des 400. Geburtstages von Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680)( Book )
- Esotismo in Roma barocca : studi sul padre Kircher by Valerio Rivosecchi( Book )
- Gli obelischi egizi : politica e cultura nella Roma barocca by Giovanni Cipriani( Book )
- Athanasius Kircher : il museo del mondo( Book )
- Athanasius Kircher (1601-1680) als Musikschriftsteller. Ein Beitr. z. Musikanschauung d. Barock by Ulf Scharlau( Book )
- Enciclopedismo in Roma barocca : Athanasius Kircher e il Museo del Collegio romano tra Wunderkammer e museo scientifico( Book )
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Most widely held works by
Athanasius Kircher
Esperienze intorno a diverse cose naturali : e particolarmente a quelle, che ci son portate dall'Indie by
Francesco Redi(
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13 editions published between 1671 and 1686 in Italian and English and held by 274 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
13 editions published between 1671 and 1686 in Italian and English and held by 274 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
La Tarantella nel Salento : played on organs and traditional instruments(
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5 editions published in 2013 in 3 languages and held by 244 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"The tarantella is an ecstatic folk dance from southern Italy with a long tradition extending to the present day. It actually came into being as a form of therapy following a tarantula bite: the musicians came to the patient's house, to the marketplace or church, and began playing. The victim of the bite danced to the point of total exhaustion in order to drive the spider's poison out of the body. The present CD is the result of the organist Liuwe Tamminga's longstanding preoccupation with this repertoire, notated between the 17th and 20th centuries, which has always exerted a great fascination on musicians. The special attraction of this recording lies in the fact that it combines outstanding historical organs from Apulia with a number of ;therapeutic' instruments: tambourine, castanets and triangle underline the rhythm whilst providing strong accents, and various plucked instruments such as the guitar and mandolin enter into a dialogue with the organ"--Distributor website
5 editions published in 2013 in 3 languages and held by 244 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"The tarantella is an ecstatic folk dance from southern Italy with a long tradition extending to the present day. It actually came into being as a form of therapy following a tarantula bite: the musicians came to the patient's house, to the marketplace or church, and began playing. The victim of the bite danced to the point of total exhaustion in order to drive the spider's poison out of the body. The present CD is the result of the organist Liuwe Tamminga's longstanding preoccupation with this repertoire, notated between the 17th and 20th centuries, which has always exerted a great fascination on musicians. The special attraction of this recording lies in the fact that it combines outstanding historical organs from Apulia with a number of ;therapeutic' instruments: tambourine, castanets and triangle underline the rhythm whilst providing strong accents, and various plucked instruments such as the guitar and mandolin enter into a dialogue with the organ"--Distributor website
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(
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4 editions published between 1669 and 1974 in English and held by 232 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
4 editions published between 1669 and 1974 in English and held by 232 WorldCat member 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(
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32 editions published between 1680 and 1973 in Latin and Undetermined and held by 229 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
32 editions published between 1680 and 1973 in Latin and Undetermined and held by 229 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Jesu Turris Babel, sive, Archontologia : qua primo priscorum post diluvium hominum vita, mores rerumque
gestarum magnitudo : secundo Turris fabrica civitatumque extructio, confusio linguarum, & inde gentium transmigrationis, cum
principalium inde enatorum idiomatum historia, multiplici eruditione describuntur & explicantur by
Athanasius Kircher(
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18 editions published in 1679 in Latin and held by 136 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
18 editions published in 1679 in Latin and held by 136 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Musurgia universalis by
Athanasius Kircher(
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33 editions published between 1970 and 2006 in 3 languages and held by 134 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
33 editions published between 1970 and 2006 in 3 languages and held by 134 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The volcano's, or, Burning and fire-vomiting mountains famous in the world, with their remarkables by
Athanasius Kircher(
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6 editions published between 1669 and 1980 in English and held by 129 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
6 editions published between 1669 and 1980 in English and held by 129 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Ars magna lucis et umbrae in decem libros digesta : quibus admirandae lucis et umbrae in mundo, atque adeo universa natura,
vires effectusq. uti nova, ita varia novorum reconditiorumq. speciminum exhibitione, ad varios mortalium usus, panduntur by
Athanasius Kircher(
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3 editions published between 1645 and 1646 in Italian and Latin and held by 125 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
3 editions published between 1645 and 1646 in Italian and Latin and held by 125 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Athanasii Kircheri E Soc. Jesu China Monumentis, Qua Sacris quà Profanis, Nec non variis Naturæ & Artis Spectaculis, Aliarumque
rerum memorabilium Argumentis Illustrata, Auspiciis Leopoldi Primi, Roman. Imper. Semper Augusti, Munificentißimi Mecænatis by
Athanasius Kircher(
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43 editions published between 1667 and 2013 in Latin and Undetermined and held by 123 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This work, by Kircher's regular Amsterdam publishers, represents the 1st edition of his "China Illustrata" in Latin. A subsequent unauthorized edition, in a slightly smaller format but with the same text and with artfully copied engravings, was published by Amsterdam printer Jacob van Meurs, also in 1667. When the authorized printers, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge and Elizaeus Weyerstraten (who died shortly thereafter) were apprised of the situation they called for a meeting with Van Meurs, to be mediated by a third Amsterdam printer and attended by a notary public. At this meeting, on 27 June 1667, the aggrieved parties demanded that Van Meurs hand over the entirety of his copy of the work: all his printed copies along with his copper and woodblock plates. Further, he was to cease and desist from publishing this work again. In return Van Meurs received 3,450 florins, which basically covered the costs of his "reprint." Subsequent printings at the shop of Janssonius van Waesberge and Weyerstraten (and later with Weyerstraten's widow) used the slightly smaller engravings that Van Meurs had commissioned, though the text remained precisely the same
43 editions published between 1667 and 2013 in Latin and Undetermined and held by 123 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This work, by Kircher's regular Amsterdam publishers, represents the 1st edition of his "China Illustrata" in Latin. A subsequent unauthorized edition, in a slightly smaller format but with the same text and with artfully copied engravings, was published by Amsterdam printer Jacob van Meurs, also in 1667. When the authorized printers, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge and Elizaeus Weyerstraten (who died shortly thereafter) were apprised of the situation they called for a meeting with Van Meurs, to be mediated by a third Amsterdam printer and attended by a notary public. At this meeting, on 27 June 1667, the aggrieved parties demanded that Van Meurs hand over the entirety of his copy of the work: all his printed copies along with his copper and woodblock plates. Further, he was to cease and desist from publishing this work again. In return Van Meurs received 3,450 florins, which basically covered the costs of his "reprint." Subsequent printings at the shop of Janssonius van Waesberge and Weyerstraten (and later with Weyerstraten's widow) used the slightly smaller engravings that Van Meurs had commissioned, though the text remained precisely the same
China illustrata by
Athanasius Kircher(
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14 editions published between 1979 and 1987 in 3 languages and held by 121 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
14 editions published between 1979 and 1987 in 3 languages and held by 121 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Phonurgia nova by
Athanasius Kircher(
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2 editions published in 1966 in English and held by 117 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
2 editions published in 1966 in English and held by 117 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Romani Collegii Societatis Jesu Musaeum celeberrimum : cujus magnum antiquariae rei, statuarum, imaginum, picturarumque partem
ex legato Alphonsi Donini, S.P.Q.R., a secretis, munificâ liberalitate relictum by
Collegio romano(
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28 editions published in 1678 in Latin and Undetermined and held by 115 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
28 editions published in 1678 in Latin and Undetermined and held by 115 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Jesu China monumentis, qvà sacris quà profanis : nec non variis naturæ & artis spectaculis, aliarumque
rerum memorabilium argumentis illustrata, auspiciis Leopoldi Primi roman. imper by
Athanasius Kircher(
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11 editions published in 1667 in Latin and held by 108 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
11 editions published in 1667 in Latin and held by 108 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Pantometrum Kircherianum, hoc est, Instrumentum geometricum novum, à celeberrimo viro P. Athanasio Kirchero ante hac inventum
: nunc decem libris, universam pænè practicam geometriam complectentibus explicatum, perspicuisque demonstrationibus illustratum by
Gaspar Schott(
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7 editions published in 1660 in Latin and held by 96 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
7 editions published in 1660 in Latin and held by 96 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Athanasii Kircheri Fuldensis Buchonii è Soc. Jesu presbyteri ; Ars magna lucis et umbrae, in X. libros digesta. : quibus
admirandae lucis & umbrae in mundo, atque adeò universa natura, vires effectusque uti nova, ita varia novorum reconditiorumque
speciminum exhibitione, ad varios mortalium usus, panduntur by
Athanasius Kircher(
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18 editions published between 1549 and 1671 in Latin and held by 95 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
18 editions published between 1549 and 1671 in Latin and held by 95 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Musurgia universalis by
Athanasius Kircher(
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28 editions published between 1650 and 2006 in 3 languages and held by 94 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
28 editions published between 1650 and 2006 in 3 languages and held by 94 WorldCat member 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(
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7 editions published between 1667 and 1973 in Latin and held by 77 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
7 editions published between 1667 and 1973 in Latin and held by 77 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Athanasii Kircheri è Soc. Jesu Latium : id est, nova & parallela Latii tum veteris tum novi descriptio : qua quaecunque vel
natura, vel veterum Romanorum ingenium admiranda effecit, geographico-historico-physico ratiocinio, juxta rerum gestarum,
temporumque seriem exponitur & enucleatur by
Athanasius Kircher(
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11 editions published in 1671 in Latin and Undetermined and held by 77 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
11 editions published in 1671 in Latin and Undetermined and held by 77 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Athanasii Kircheri iter extaticum coeleste : quo mundi opificium, id est, coelestis expansi, siderumq[ue] tam errantium, quam
fixorum natura, vires, proprietates, singulorum[que] compositio & structura, ab infimo telluris globo, us[que] ad ultimi mundi
confinia, per ficta raptus integumentum explorata, novâ hyothesi exponitur ad veritatem interlocutoribus Cosmiele et Theodidacto by
Athanasius Kircher(
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10 editions published between 1660 and 1975 in Latin and Undetermined and held by 76 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
10 editions published between 1660 and 1975 in Latin and Undetermined and held by 76 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Athanasii Kircheri Mundus subterraneus : in xii libros digestus : quo divinum subterrestris mundi opificium, mira ergasteriorum
naturæ in eo distributio, verbo [pantamorphon [romanized form] Protei regnum, vniversæ denique naturæ majestas & divitiæ summa
rerum varietate exponuntur : abditorum effectuum causæ acri indagine inquisitæ demonstrantur : cognitæ per artis & naturæ
conjugium ad humanæ vitæ necessarium usum vario experimentorum apparatu, necnon novo modo, & ratione applicantur by
Athanasius Kircher(
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9 editions published between 1665 and 1973 in Latin and held by 71 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
9 editions published between 1665 and 1973 in Latin and held by 71 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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Related Identities
- Jesuits
- Fletcher, John Edward Author
- Fletcher, Elizabeth 1942- Author Editor
- Trompf, G. W. Editor
- Schott, Gaspar 1608-1666 Editor Illustrator Dedicatee Author Contributor Translator
- Godwin, Joscelyn Author
- Blas de Roblès, Jean-Marie 1954- Author
- Janssonius van Waesberge, Johannes active 1642-1681 Printer Recipient Editor
- Glassie, John Author
- Mitchell, Mike (Translator) Translator
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Afanasi Kirxer
Atanasio Kircher sacerdote católico de Alemania
Athanasiu Kircher
Athanasius Kircher
Athanasius Kircher deutscher Universalgelehrter und Autor
Athanasius Kircher German Jesuit scholar
Athanasius Kircher gesuita, filosofo e storico tedesco
Athanasius Kircher Jesuit scholar
Athanasius Kircher jésuite allemand, graphologue, orientaliste
Athanasius Kircher německý jezuitský učenec
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Ατανάζιους Κίρχερ
Атанасий Кирхер
Атанасыюс Кірхер Намецкі навуковец-унівэрсал
Атанасіус Кірхер
Афанасий Кирхер немецкий учёный-энциклопедист и изобретатель
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Кирхер, Атанасиус, 1602-1680
Кирхнер, Атанасиус, 1602-1680
אתנסיוס קירכר
آتاناسیوس کریچر
آتاناسیوس کیرشه
أثانيسيوس كيرتشر
아타나시우스 키르허
アタナシウス・キルヒャー
キルヒャー
キルヒャー, アタナシウス
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