He had fun
Anthony Grafton: Athanasius Kircher, 7 November 2013
Egyptian Oedipus: Athanasius Kircher and the Secrets of Antiquity
by Daniel Stolzenberg.
Chicago, 307 pp., £35, April 2013,978 0 226 92414 4 Show More
by Daniel Stolzenberg.
Chicago, 307 pp., £35, April 2013,
Exploring the Kingdom of Saturn: Kircher’s Latium and Its Legacy
by Harry Evans.
Michigan, 236 pp., £63.50, July 2012,978 0 472 11815 1 Show More
by Harry Evans.
Michigan, 236 pp., £63.50, July 2012,
“... largely derivative, their style crude, and no subsequent researcher has turned up the actual book. Daniel Stolzenberg, a historian (and historian of science) at Davis, gives good reasons for believing that Kircher did not invent it wholesale, but the possibility remains. Even fellow Jesuits who read and censored his massive books complained about his ... ”