A Man of Misconceptions: The Life of an Eccentric in an Age of Change by John Glassie, Athanasius Kircher

A Man of Misconceptions: The Life of an Eccentric in an Age of Change

John Glassie, Athanasius Kircher

273 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The "fascinating" (The New Yorker) story of Athanasius Kircher, the eccentric scholar-inventor who was either a great genius or a crackpot... or a bit of both.The interests of Athanasius Kircher, the legendary seventeenth-century priest-scientist,...

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