Difference between revisions of "Athanasius Kircher"

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[[Image:Kircher_Athanasius_Phonurgia_nova.jpg|thumb|258px|Kircher, ''Phonurgia nova'', 1673. [http://digital.slub-dresden.de/en/workview/dlf/1421/11/ View online].]]
 
[[Image:Kircher_Athanasius_Phonurgia_nova.jpg|thumb|258px|Kircher, ''Phonurgia nova'', 1673. [http://digital.slub-dresden.de/en/workview/dlf/1421/11/ View online].]]
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* ''[http://rarebookroom.org/Control/kirlin/ Lingua aegyptiaca restituta]'', 1644.
 
* ''[http://rarebookroom.org/Control/kirlin/ Lingua aegyptiaca restituta]'', 1644.
 
* ''[http://rarebookroom.org/Control/kirart/ Ars magna lucis et vmbrae in decem libros digesta]'', 1646.
 
* ''[http://rarebookroom.org/Control/kirart/ Ars magna lucis et vmbrae in decem libros digesta]'', 1646.
 
* ''[http://rarebookroom.org/Control/kirmus/ Musurgia vniuersalis]'', 1650.
 
* ''[http://rarebookroom.org/Control/kirmus/ Musurgia vniuersalis]'', 1650.
* ''[http://rarebookroom.org/Control/kirobe/ Obeliscvs pamphilivs]'', 1650.
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* ''[http://rarebookroom.org/Control/kirobe/ Obeliscvs pamphilivs]'', 1650. [http://archive.org/details/athanasiikircher00kirc]
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* ''[http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/content/search?searchSimple=kircher+Oedipus+Aegyptiacus Oedipus Aegyptiacus]'', 3 vols., 1652-54. [http://books.google.com/books/ucm?op=add&sig=ACfU3U1cIm_Xei25XMqHdb8Y5nS1mb15sw&uid=114584440181414684107&as_coll=7&id=jHCt_wrnMqcC Vol. 1], [http://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=bdNIAAAAcAAJ&rdid=book-bdNIAAAAcAAJ&rdot=1 Vol. 2], [http://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=ldNIAAAAcAAJ&rdid=book-ldNIAAAAcAAJ&rdot=1 Vol. 3].  
 
* ''[http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/680 Scrutinium physico-medicum contagiosae luis]'', 1658.
 
* ''[http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/680 Scrutinium physico-medicum contagiosae luis]'', 1658.
 
* ''[http://rarebookroom.org/Control/kirite/ Iter extaticum coeleste, quo mundi opificium]'', 1660.
 
* ''[http://rarebookroom.org/Control/kirite/ Iter extaticum coeleste, quo mundi opificium]'', 1660.
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* ''[http://rarebookroom.org/Control/kirada/ Obelisci Aegyptiaci], 1666.
 
* ''[http://rarebookroom.org/Control/kirada/ Obelisci Aegyptiaci], 1666.
 
* ''[[Media:Kircher_Athanasius_Phonurgia_nova.pdf|Phonurgia nova, sive conjugium mechanico-physicum artis & natvrae paranympha phonosophia concinnatum]]'', Kempten: Rudolph Dreherr, 1673. (in Latin). Early book on sound, acoustics and music; describes acoustic apparatuses and phenomena such as the ''tuba stentorophonica'' [the loud trumpet], the ''statua citofonica'' [the talking statue], or the Aeolian harp. Scans online: [http://digital.slub-dresden.de/en/workview/dlf/1421/11/], [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k111869n.r]. Commentaries: [http://www.digicult.it/digimag/issue-055/athanasius-kircher-arca-musarithmica-and-many-sound-devices/], [http://webistem.com/acoustics2008/acoustics2008/cd1/data/articles/000807.pdf].  
 
* ''[[Media:Kircher_Athanasius_Phonurgia_nova.pdf|Phonurgia nova, sive conjugium mechanico-physicum artis & natvrae paranympha phonosophia concinnatum]]'', Kempten: Rudolph Dreherr, 1673. (in Latin). Early book on sound, acoustics and music; describes acoustic apparatuses and phenomena such as the ''tuba stentorophonica'' [the loud trumpet], the ''statua citofonica'' [the talking statue], or the Aeolian harp. Scans online: [http://digital.slub-dresden.de/en/workview/dlf/1421/11/], [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k111869n.r]. Commentaries: [http://www.digicult.it/digimag/issue-055/athanasius-kircher-arca-musarithmica-and-many-sound-devices/], [http://webistem.com/acoustics2008/acoustics2008/cd1/data/articles/000807.pdf].  
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* ''[http://diglib.hab.de/wdb.php?dir=drucke/15-9-quod-2f&distype=thumbs Sphinx Mystagoga]'', 1676.
  
[[Category:Media archaeology|Kircher, Athanasius]]
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* Daniel Stolzenberg, ''Egyptian Oedipus: Athanasius Kircher and the Secrets of Antiquity'', University of Chicago Press, 2013, 320 pp.
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* Daniel Stolzenberg, [http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/05/16/athanasius-kircher-and-the-hieroglyphic-sphinx/ "Athanasius Kircher and the Hieroglyphic Sphinx"], ''Public Domain Review'', Sep 2014.

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Kircher, Phonurgia nova, 1673. View online.
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