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	Athanasius Kircher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kircher himself was alive to the possibility of the hieroglyphs constituting an alphabet: he included in his proposed system (incorrect) derivations of the Greek alphabet from 21 hieroglyphs.
		Kircher took a notably modern approach to the study of diseases, as early as 1646 using a microscope to investigate the blood of plague victims.
		Kircher's patron Peiresc had claimed that the clock's motion supported the Copernican cosmological model, the argument being that the magnetic sphere in the clock was caused to rotate by the magnetic force of the sun.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Athanasius_Kircher (2152 words)

	Kircher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Athanasius Kircher fled the increasing factional and dynastic fighting in Germany (part of the Thirty Years' War) and taught mathematics, natural philosophy, and oriental languages at the Jesuit college at Avignon (1631).
		Kircher discusses, for example, the magnetism of the earth and heavenly bodies; the tides; the attraction and repulsion in animals and plants; and the magnetic attraction of music and love.
		In this sanctuary Kircher's heart was buried, and at the beginning of the twentieth century this place of pilgrimage was distinguished by a gigantic statue of Divine Redeemer on the neighbouring crest of Guadagnole.
	www.geocities.com /neveyaakov/electro_science/kircher.html (3867 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Athanasius Kircher
		Athanasius studied humanities at the Jesuit College in Fulda, and on 2 Oct., 1618, entered the Society of Jesus at Paderborn.
		Recognizing in Kircher the right man to solve the old Egyptian riddle, Peiresc applied direct to Rome and to the General of the Jesuits to have Kircher's call to Vienna by the emperor set aside and to procure a summons for the scholar to the Eternal City.
		In this sanctuary Kircher's heart was buried, and at the beginning of the twentieth century this place of pilgrimage was distinguished by a gigantic statue of our Divine Redeemer on the neighbouring crest of Guadagnole.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/08661a.htm (1284 words)

	Oedipus Aegyptiacus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Athanasius Kircher's Oedipus Aegyptiacus is a fine example of syncretic and eclectic scholarship in the late Renaissance.
		Kircher was respected in the seventeenth century for his study of Egyptian hieroglyphs; his exact contemporary Sir Thomas Browne (1605-82) paid tribute to him as an Egyptologist and his study of hieroglyphs-
		But in fact Kircher failed to decipher the true meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs and it was left to the Frenchman Jean-François Champollion to finally solve the riddle through his study of the Rosetta stone during the years 1822-24.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oedipus_Aegyptiacus (408 words)

	Rocky Road: Athanasius Kircher
		Kircher is remembered in a large part for misunderstanding the origin of fossils, but he studied them at a time when a fossil could be anything dug up from the ground, so it's not ironic that he proposed multiple hypotheses for their origins.
		Kircher believed in spontaneous generation of insects from animal dung (he even published recipes), a continual creative force within the planet and throughout the universe, and mountain ranges concealing networks of rivers and streams.
		Kircher was one of the first people to work with microscopes, and one of the first to propose the role of microorganisms in the spread of disease.
	www.strangescience.net /kircher.htm (1427 words)

	Athanasius Kircher: Renaissance Man
		Kircher, born in Germany in 1601, studied as a young man at the Jesuit college in Fulda, near his birthplace.
		Kircher was able to be part of the scientific world of his day and to publish his findings without, for the most part, getting into trouble.
		And scholars tend to agree that Kircher was an important figure at the end of an age that thought one could know everything worth knowing, a renaissance man at the end of the Renaissance, one who linked all fields of interest as the age of specialization was beginning.
	www.companymagazine.org /v192/renaissance.htm (2224 words)

	EIPS - Fr Athanasius Kircher SJ, Genius or Wizard?
		Kircher was born on the saint’s day of his namesake Athanasius, the sainted opponent of Arius. He was given this name by devout Romanist parents living in the heartlands of the German Counter Reformation, which had been newly wrested from the Lutherans. Three surviving brothers of five all went into religious orders without question.
		And here Athanasius Kircher remained for the rest of his life. He soon filled the Chair of Mathematics at the college but was back under the stultifying intellectual restrictions of the Jesuits.
		Kircher wrote over 40 original scientific books. Most of these were published in Holland or Germany to avoid brushes with the Inquisition. He was trying to serve two masters, that is, scientific method and the Jesuit General.
	www.ianpaisley.org /article.asp?printerFriendly=true&ArtKey=athanasius (318 words)

	The Life and Work of Athanaseus Kircher, S.J.
		In 1621, a year after Kircher took his vows, Duke Christian of Brunswick, administrator of the secularized bishopric of Halberstadt, moved troops into the diocese of Paderborn, and the Jesuits of the college were obliged to flee.
		It was thus that Athanasius Kircher arrived, slightly worse for wear, in the city of Heiligenstadt two days later, where he was appointed grammaticus and soon began teaching classes in mathematics, Hebrew and Syriac.
		Ordained in 1628, Kircher was sent to Speier to serve out the third portion of his probationary period in spiritual retreat and, on a trip to the college's library, stumbled across a reproduction of Egyptian hieroglyphics, which were to remain an obsession for the rest of his life.
	www.mjt.org /exhibits/kircher.html (1611 words)

	Voynich MS - Biographies
		Athanasius Kircher was a contemporary of Marci, and while he was significantly more famous than Marci in his days, also he has left little impact on modern times.
		Athanasius was the last of his nine children, and precocious enough as a boy to be given Hebrew lessons from a Rabbi in addition to the regular curriculum of the local Jesuit school in Fulda.
		Kircher says, when recording these incidents, that his early deliverances from death were nothing short of miraculous, and that already in his youth he felt favored by God and marked out for some special destiny (45).
	www.voynich.nu /curricula.html (9337 words)

	Athanasius Kircher
		Kircher had also wondered why the sky was blue, but never reached a satisfactory answer.
		Kircher, who came from Fulda, was a versatile man whose activities included the teaching of mathematics and Hebrew.
		Kircher's book contains eight chapters which deal with the multitude of colours, investigate the colours of transparent stones, or query those of plants and animals, for example.
	www.colorsystem.com /projekte/engl/06kire.htm (877 words)

	Athanasius Kircher, Musurgia universalis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Athanasius Kircher was a German Jesuit scholar who published around 40 works on a wide variety of subjects including Egyptology, geology, music theory, oriental studies, geology and medicine.
		In particular, Kircher is noted for being ahead of his time in proposing that the plague was caused by an infectious microorganism and in suggesting effective measures to prevent the spread of the disease.
		Kircher alongside many others in the 17th century was fascinated by the material basis of sound.
	www.library.rdg.ac.uk /colls/special/featureditem/kircher (808 words)

	The Chronicle: Daily news: 05/28/2002 -- 04
		Portions of that memo are quoted by Ingrid D. Rowland, a professor in the humanities at the American Academy in Rome, in The Ecstatic Journey: Athanasius Kircher in Baroque Rome, the catalog from an exhibit held in the spring of 2000 by the University of Chicago Library.
		Findlen analyzed the role of Kircher's famous museum in the creation of a humanistic "republic of letters." Her presentation at NYU considered the impact of his books on the international community of scholars (and vice versa).
		Kircher floated a potted sunflower in a vat of water and stuck a needle in the stem, which then pointed to the hour marked on the edge of the device as the plant rotated freely to follow the sun across the sky.
	chronicle.com /free/2002/05/2002052804n.htm (2227 words)

	Kircher Musurgia Universalis
		Kircher held to the medieval idea that music is a reflection of the essential mathematics and proportions inherent in all Creation so the Trinity was not only a symbol but a real dogma.
		Kircher's keen interest in anatomy is shown in the cut-away style of these anatomical drawings of the human head and ear, designed to show how the ear actually hears and responds to music.
		The Athanasius Kircher Correspondence Project, between the Universities of Stanford and Milan, shows us something of the quality and variety of Kircher’s eight hundred-plus regular correspondents: from queens and emperors to the insane Mexican nun who gave herself a make-over in the style of Osiris to keep up with Kircher’s descriptions in his Oedipus Egypticus.
	special.lib.gla.ac.uk /exhibns/month/nov2002.html (1655 words)

	Kircher, Athanasius. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Kircher was interested in all branches of science, especially in subterranean phenomena (volcanic forces in particular), in the deciphering of hieroglyphics (albeit incorrectly), the chronologgy of ancient Egyptian dynasties, and in linguistic relations.
		Kircher’s frequently playful inventions included an early slide projector, a talking and eavesdropping statue that employed a primitive intercom, a chamber of mirrors, and a vomiting machine.
		At first a professor of ethics and mathematics at the Univ. of Würzburg, he later became a (1635) professor of physics, mathematics, and Oriental languages at the College of Rome, resigning in 1643 to devote himself to archaeological research.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ki/Kircher.html (289 words)

	Athanasius Kircher Correspondence Project
		During his lifetime, the Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) was widely regarded as the physical embodiment of all the learning of his age.
		In return, Kircher sent his powerful patrons medicines and balsams produced in the pharmacy of the Jesuit college in Rome, and elaborate machines of his devising such as the Mathematical Organ, an example of which is now preserved in the Museum of History of Science in Florence.
		The bulk of Kircher's correspondence is currently preserved in the Archives of the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, in fourteen folio volumes (APUG 555 - APUG 568) containing a total of 2291 letters, and a number of miscellaneous papers.
	archimede.imss.fi.it /kircher (2673 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Calculation revealed to Kircher that, indeed, the tyrant’s plan to storm the heavens could not have succeeded: By his reckoning, the structure would have required some 3 million tons of material and, just to reach the moon (the lowest heavenly body), would have had to be 178,682 miles high.
		Several exhibits in the MJT show are devoted to Kircher’s ideas about magnetic sympathy, including a marvelous sculptural simulacra of his sunflower clock — in the original, a sunflower mounted on a cork floating in water told the hours as the blossom sympathetically tracked the motion of the sun.
		Kircher lived at a time when the dividing line between “magic” and “science” had still to be clearly drawn.
	www.laweekly.com /ink/printme.php?eid=20313 (1295 words)

	No. 1643: Athanasius Kircher
		While Kircher clearly sympathized with the sun-centered universe, he was as smooth as Galileo had been abrasive.
		Kircher bridged the gap by continuing to speak in the language of scholars who'd set the philosophical underpinnings of the Church.
		The brilliant Kircher knew twelve languages and was a student of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi1643.htm (564 words)

	Exhibit on Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher opens April 22 at Green Library : 4/01
		Athanasius Kircher is the Baroque era's answer to Leonardo da Vinci.
		Kircher exposed how hidden magnets made the clock work to prevent defenders of Copernicus from using it as evidence that the Earth was in motion.
		The exhibit also coincides with a conference, "Baroque Imaginary: The World of Athanasius Kircher, S.J. (1602-1680)," scheduled to be held April 27-28 in the Bender Room of Green Library.
	news-service.stanford.edu /news/2001/april18/advancekircher-418.html (430 words)

	Athanasius Kircher's Magnetic Clock
		Athanasius Kircher's 1641 book on magnetism, the Magnes, finally made public the secret mechanism of the magnetic clock and disabled it as a potential argument for the motion of the earth.
		Kircher's earlier work on magnetism, his Ars Magnesia of 1631, makes no mention of any such device, but we know that Kircher made a machine based on the same principle, his magnetic anemoscope, while in Malta between 1637-1638.
		Kircher's 1641 Magnes includes a large number of other machines based on the same technique, suggesting that if he did not know about the technique in 1631, he made up for lost time fast.
	www.stanford.edu /~mgorman/kircher/kircher.html (222 words)

	The Galileo Project
		He was the youngest of six sons (there were also 3 daughters) of Johannes Kircher of Mainz, D.D. His father studied philosophy and theology at Mainz, receiving a doctorate in theology.
		Kircher's disciple, Caspar Schott, produced a commentary on Kircher's pantometer (see technical connections) which he dedicated to Duke Ludwig von Mecklenburg, one of Kircher's patrons.
		Kircher refused anything for himself but asked for a donation to the church he was restoring (see below).
	galileo.rice.edu /Catalog/NewFiles/kircher.html (1450 words)

	Athanasius Kircher and the Egyptian Oedipus
		For Kircher, the point of learning Coptic was simple: it descended, he claimed, from ancient Egyptian, and hence held the answer to deciphering the hieroglyphs.
		Kircher's "worthy beginning" looked like the outline of a solution, and in a certain sense it was, for he was quite correct in surmising that Coptic descended from ancient Egyptian, and was among the very first scholars to say so.
		Kircher also made extensive use of an archaeological artifact called the Mensa Isiaca--the Table of Isis, a bronze tabletop inlaid with silver Egyptian designs that had been excavated in Rome on the site of the ancient temple of Isis in the 1520s and purchased by the Venetian writer (and future cardinal) Pietro Bembo.
	fathom.lib.uchicago.edu /1/777777122590 (2693 words)

	Horror Vacui? - Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) - IMSS
		Athanasius Kircher, Musurgia universalis, sive Ars magna consoni et dissoni in x.
		In this last work, Kircher tells of having performed an experiment which convinced him of the impossibility of a vacuum in nature.
		The experiment was conducted by Gaspero Berti and himself, consisting in the insertion of a bell into the part of the barometer in which - according to the "vacuists" - the vacuum should be produced.
	galileo.imss.firenze.it /vuoto/ekirch.html (250 words)

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