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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. Curieuses Bücher-Cabinet : oder Nachricht von historischen/Staats- und galanten Sachen [ - 1722]

  • Cölln ; und Franckfurt am Mayn : zu finden in der Rengerischen Buchhandlung,
Description
Journal/Periodical — v. : ill. ; 17 cm.
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4. 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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5. The staggering state of Scottish statesmen : manuscript, ca. 1670 [1659 ... 1670]

Description
Archive/Manuscript — 1 v. (62 p.)
Summary
The bulk of THE STAGGERING STATE includes tales of woe similar to Sir John's. Since he exposed various foibles and vices several copies were evidently circulated in manuscript form before the printed edition came out in 1754.
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6. 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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