Godwin Joscelyn: Athanasius Kircher's Theatre of the World
Скачать книгу (размер 1 595 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 314) Аннотация: Athanasius Kircher (1602-80) was acknowledged to be the most learned man of his age. By profession a Jesuit priest, he made himself an authority on every subject under (and above) the sun and published the results of his researches in over thirty lavishly illustrated volumes in Latin. His museum in Rome was famous and visited by everybody in the world of learning. Inevitably, his work has been…