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* ''Ars Magnesia'', 1631, [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k111088g Gallica]. | * ''Ars Magnesia'', 1631, [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k111088g Gallica]. | ||
* ''Lingua aegyptiaca restituta'', 1644, [http://rarebookroom.org/Control/kirlin/ RBR]. | * ''Lingua aegyptiaca restituta'', 1644, [http://rarebookroom.org/Control/kirlin/ RBR]. | ||
| − | * ''Ars magna lucis et umbrae in decem libros digesta'', 1646, [http://rarebookroom.org/Control/kirart/ RBR]. | + | * ''Ars magna lucis et umbrae in decem libros digesta'', 1646, [http://rarebookroom.org/Control/kirart/ RBR], [http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/ECHOdocuView?url=/permanent/einstein_exhibition/sources/5G6UYVGT/index.meta MPIWG], [http://lhldigital.lindahall.org/cdm/ref/collection/color/id/23013 LHL]. |
* ''Musurgia universalis'', 1650, [http://rarebookroom.org/Control/kirmus/ RBR]. | * ''Musurgia universalis'', 1650, [http://rarebookroom.org/Control/kirmus/ RBR]. | ||
* ''Obeliscvs pamphilivs'', 1650, [http://rarebookroom.org/Control/kirobe/ RBR], [http://archive.org/details/athanasiikircher00kirc IA] | * ''Obeliscvs pamphilivs'', 1650, [http://rarebookroom.org/Control/kirobe/ RBR], [http://archive.org/details/athanasiikircher00kirc IA] | ||
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Kircher, Phonurgia nova, 1673. View online.
Athanasius Kircher (1601/02 – 1680) was a German Jesuit scholar.
Works
(in Latin unless noted)
- Ars Magnesia, 1631, Gallica.
- Lingua aegyptiaca restituta, 1644, RBR.
- Ars magna lucis et umbrae in decem libros digesta, 1646, RBR, MPIWG, LHL.
- Musurgia universalis, 1650, RBR.
- Obeliscvs pamphilivs, 1650, RBR, IA
- Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 3 vols., 1652-54, MPIWG, Google, vol 1, Google, vol 2, Google, vol 3.
- Scrutinium physico-medicum contagiosae luis, 1658, HUL.
- Iter extaticum coeleste, quo mundi opificium, 1660, RBR.
- Diatribe de prodigiosis crucibus, 1661, RBR.
- Polygraphia, 1663, RBR.
- Mundus subterraneus, 1665, UOL.
- Obelisci Aegyptiaci, 1666, RBR.
- Phonurgia nova, sive Conjugium mechanico-physicum artis et naturae paranympha philosophia concinnatum, Kempten: Rudolph Dreherr, 1673, PDF, SLUB, Gallica. 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. Commentaries: [1], [2].
- Sphinx Mystagoga, 1676, WDB.
Literature
- Joscelyn Godwin, Athanasius Kircher: A Renaissance Man and the Quest for Lost Knowledge, Thames & Hudson, 1979, 96 pp, Log.
- Paula Findlen (ed.), Athanasius Kircher: The Last Man Who Knew Everything, Routledge, 2003, PDF.
- John Edward Fletcher, 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, ed. Elizabeth Fletcher, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011, 656 pp, Log.
- Daniel Stolzenberg, Egyptian Oedipus: Athanasius Kircher and the Secrets of Antiquity, University of Chicago Press, 2013, 320 pp.
- Daniel Stolzenberg, "Athanasius Kircher and the Hieroglyphic Sphinx", Public Domain Review, Sep 2014, HTML.
- Roberto Buonanno, The Stars of Galileo Galilei and the Universal Knowledge of Athanasius Kircher, Springer, 2014, PDF.
