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1. Athanasius Kircher : the last man who knew everything [2004]

  • New York : Routledge, 2004.
Description
Book — xii, 465 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Summary
  • Athanasius Kircher and his world
  • Baroque imaginary : the world of Athanasius Kircher, S.J. (1602-80)
  • Kircher's Rome : a way to understand the Celeberrimus Museum Kircherianum
  • Reveries in time of plague : Kircher and the plague epidemic of 1656
  • Kircher and his critics : censorial practice and pragmatic disregard in the Society of Jesus
  • Quasi-optical palingenesis : the circulation of portraits and the image of Kircher
  • Kircher, Peiresc, and the foundation of Coptic studies, or, The quest for Barachias Nephi
  • Trees, some amulets, and the seventy-two names of God : Kircher reveals the Kabbalah
  • Kircher's chronology
  • Athanasius Kircher, Giordano Bruno, and the panspermia of the infinite universe
  • Father Athanasius on the isthmus of a middle state : understanding Kircher's paleontology
  • The angel and the compass : Athanasius Kircher's geographical project
  • Magnetic language : Athanasius Kircher and communication
  • Publishing the polygraphy : manuscript, instrument, and print in the work of Athanasius Kircher
  • Private and public knowledge : Kircher, esotericism and the republic of letters
  • Baroque science between the old world and the new : Father Kircher and his fellow Jesuit, Valentin Stansel (1621-1705)
  • A Jesuit's books in the new world : Athanasius Kircher and his American readers
  • True lies : Kircher's China illustrata and the life story of a Mexican mystic
  • Athanasius Kircher's China illustrata (1667) : an apologia pro sua vita
  • The afterlife of a polymath
  • Understanding Kircher in context.
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2. The life of Marshal Turenne [1853]

Description
Book — 101 p. ; 18 cm.
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3. La verita suelata, e la bugia flagellata del baron Henrico Enea Spalma Riminese libri tre : nel primo si descriuono e si disendono l'azzioni del marchese generale Annibale Porroni, con alcuna parte de' successi ad'esso seguiti : nel secondo si mostrano le massime cristiane e caualeresche dal medesimo scritte e praticate, che seruir possono di norma in ogni emergente à qualunque person d'onore, coll'aggiunta di vn discorso suo morale assai profitteuole : nel terzo si risponde apologeticamente alle vniuersali maledicenze prodotte dall'incognito autore, che scrisse la vita del conte Bartolomeo Aresio presidente del senato di Milano, l'anno 1681, con data di colonia [1684]

Description
Book — [24], 366, [2] (blank) p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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4. D. Catharinae Senensis Virginis SS. Ord. Praedicatorum vita ac miracula selectiora formis aeneis expressa [1600]

Description
Book — [1], 32 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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