Mundus subterraneus, in XII libros digestus . . . Two parts in one volume Athanasius KIRCHER
A first edition work, with two volumes bound in one folio, by Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680), a German Jesuit scholar who published many extensive works on scientific, religious, and other subjects. Dubbed the "Master of a Hundred Arts," Kircher's interests were vast; his life's work included studies of Egyptology, Sinology, geology, technology, and microscopy.
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KIRCHER, Athanasius (160280). Mundus Subterraneus. Amsterdam Joannes Jansson and Elizeus
Latin Volume 2 Mundus Subterraneus is the most geological of Kircher's works. This book is notable for containing early plates of the Earth's interior, and views of spectacular eruptions of Mt. Vesuvius and Mt. Etna. Plato's Atlantis is represented as an island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
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Athanasius Kircher, Mundus subterraneus (1665). ( Gallery; cf. two-page spreads .) The range of interests displayed by Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) is staggering, even in a century renowned for universal scholarship. Despite failed attempts to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics, he was a master of a dozen European and Oriental languages.
Mundus subterraneus, in XII libros digestus Athanasius Kircher First Edition
Athanasius Kircher's Mundus Subterraneus (1664), geological specimen nine, presents an interiorized view of geological formation in which all development emanates from within. In Kircher's oeuvre, generative creation is mapped from the scale of geological formation to the scale of physiographic metamorphosis, leading to the conclusion that.
Athanasius Kircher. Mundus Subterraneus. 1664 El alquimista
ATHANASIUS KIRCHER AND MUNDUS SUBTERRANEUS: TWO ANOMALOUS ENTITIES Athanasius Kircher's life spanned most of the seventeenth century, and, as such, his career bridged a changing society.. As with Kircher, the Mundus Subterraneus has been a prob-lematic work for historians to fi t into the traditional description of the evolution of the.
Earth interior. From Athanasius Kircher, Mundus Subterraneus, 1665.... Download Scientific Diagram
10.1 Aetna erupting, from Athanasius Kircher, Mundus subterraneus, 2 vols. (3rd edn, Amsterdam, 1678), unnumbered plate between i, 200 and 1, 201. Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, California. Reproduced with permission 177 13.1 Sandro Botticelli, Primavera. Uffizi Gallery, Florence. Photograph courtesy of Alinari 220
Athanasius Kircher, Mundus Subterraneus Senses Atlas
His masterwork, Mundus Subterraneus, is a spectacular work about the entrails of our planet: a two-volume book of encyclopedic proportions that presents "before the eyes of the curious reader all that is rare, exotic, and portentous, contained in the fecund womb of Nature.". Under the premise that there is an "idea of the earthly sphere.
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Athanasius Kircher (2 May 1602 - 27 November 1680) [1] was a German Jesuit scholar and polymath who published around 40 major works of comparative religion, geology, and medicine.
Mundus Subterraneus by Athanasius Kircher geology
Review of Mundus Subterraneus (author = Athanasius Kircher), republished by Arnaldo Forni Editore, 2011. Review by Arthur N. Palmer. I reviewed this book about 8 years ago for the National.
Mundus subterraneus, in XII libros digestus . . . Two parts in one volume Athanasius KIRCHER
Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680), occupied the chair of mathematics at the Roman College, and during his life, he dedicated himself to search for universal knowledge. He organized a museum that presented an image of universal science. His thirty-two books cover a great variety of subjects.
Mundus subterraneus, in XII libros digestus Athanasius Kircher First Edition
Portrait of Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) by Cornelius Bloemart (1603-1680) from the 1664 edition of Mundus Subterraneus . Engraving of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 1638. From Mundus.
Athanasius Kircher (16021680), “Mundus Subterraneus”, 1665 Source Esoteric art, Occult art
Chicago citation style: Kircher, Athanasius. Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Jesu, Mundus subterraneus in XII libros digestus: quo divinum subterrestris mundi opificium, mira ergasteriorum naturae in eo distributio verbo pantámorphon Protei regnum: universae denique naturae majestas & divitiae summa rerum varietate exponuntur.
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Other articles where Mundus Subterraneus is discussed: Earth sciences: The rise of subterranean water:.philosopher Athanasius Kircher, in his Mundus subterraneus (1664; "Subterranean World"), suggested that the tides pump seawater through hidden channels to points of outlet at springs. To explain the rise of subterranean water beneath mountains, the chemist Robert Plot appealed to the.
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English Extended title: The vulcano's: or, Burning and fire-vomiting mountains : famous in the world: vvith their remarkables. Collected for the most part out of Kircher's Subterraneous world; and expos'd to more general view in English, upon the relation of the late wonderful and prodigious eruptions of Aetna.
Mundus subterraneus, in XII libros digestus . . . Two parts in one volume Athanasius KIRCHER
Mundus subterraneus, quo universae denique naturae divitiae (very roughly "The subterranean world, all its riches" [1]) is a scientific textbook written by Athanasius Kircher, and published in 1665. The work depicts Earth's geography through textual description, as well as lavish illustrations. [2] Title page
Athanasius Kircher, Mundus Subterraneus Shape Of The Universe, Occult Symbols, Lovecraftian, Old
This publication on the geography of the earth was the first of several books that German Jesuit Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) had printed in Amsterdam in order to avoid Roman censorship. In this spectacular publication, he combined ancient and medieval natural philosophy with observations of his own.