Alex Boese, The Museum of Hoaxes: pre-1700, Athanasius Kircher. Famous linguist translates meaningless hieroglyphics, repeatedly.
Rosa Casanova: Gnomonica. About sundials. Go to: GNOMONICA KIRCHERIANA (by Nicola Severino). In Italian.
Comenius-Project 2000 (Students from: The Aloisiuskolleg, Bonn, Germany; The Sint-Barbara-College, Ghent, Belgium; and Instituto Leone XIII, Milano, Italy). The main topic of this Project is Athanasius Kircher.
The Museum Of Jurassic Technology, Culver City, CA: The World is Bound With Secret Knots. The life and works of Athanasius Kircher. Also available in a German version.
Fushigi Tours, Japan (Produced by Hitachi Ltd., with Editorial Engineering Laboratory): The Grand Opening of Kircherland (sic!)
Michael John Gorman, Stanford University: Athanasius Kircher's Magnetic Clock. A Reconstruction by Caroline Bouguereau. Click on the fish or visit the navigation site.
Michael John Gorman and Nick Wilding Institute and Museum of the History of Science, Florence: THE CORRESPONDENCE OF ATHANASIUS KIRCHER. This is intended as a preliminary description of the project to produce an Internet edition of the correspondence of Athanasius Kircher. The first phase of the project has just been completed through the collaboration of the Institute and Museum of the History of Science in Florence, the European University Institute in Fiesole and the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. A trial version of the database of Kircher's correspondence conserved in the archives of the Gregorian University is now available for searching online, and is linked to scanned images of the manuscripts.
Robert A. Hatch, Department of History, University of Florida, Gainesville: KIRCHER & THE WORLD SYSTEMS. See also here, scroll down to "Athanasius Kircher".
Rita Haub, Archivum Monacense SJ, & Hans-Joachim Vollrath, Mathematisches Institut der Universität Würzburg: Das Organum mathematicum - Die mathematische Orgel. Go to: Athanasius Kircher (in German).
Eric Holzenberg and Michael White, The Science Library / Loyola University of Chicago: Jesuits and the Sciences: 1540-1995. An exhibit of rare scientific works from the Cudahy Collection of Jesuitica. Go to: Jesuits and the Sciences, 1660-1719. Jesuit scientific writing during the second half of the seventeenth century was dominated by the work of Althanasius Kircher.
! Jesuiten-Online-Redaktion, München: Athanasius Kircher: Jesuit und Universalgelehrter des 17. Jahrhunderts. Symposium, 6.-9. März 2003, Fulda Programm und Anmeldeformular (PDF-Format, 6 Seiten DIN A4, 20kB), and Online-Anmeldung (in German).
Christopher B. Jones, November 1, 2000 (hosted by Suite101.com): By the Light of the Moon: Science Fiction's 17th-Century Roots.
Al Kaske, Hamline University, Minnesota: An Optics Puzzle. The imaging (projecting) lens needs to between the object (the slide) and the screen!
Biblioteca Panizzi, Reggio Emilia: La zoologia fantastica, Athanasius Kircher (in Italian).
Gianni Pittiglio, arte.it: IL MUSEO DEL MONDO (the Rome exhibition), TRA RELIGIONE E SCIENZA, KIRCHER? MI SAREBBE PIACIUTO CONOSCERLO IL MUSEO DELLE MERAVIGLIE, BERNINI E KIRCHER, and L’ARCA DI NOE’ (in Italian).
RESCH, Andreas: Athanasius Kircher (16021680). On the 400th anniversary of his birth. Grenzgebiete der Wissenschaft 51 (2002) 4, 313-345. Book announcement (In German).
J.R. Ritman Library, Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica. The Library of Hermetic Philosophy in Amsterdam: Treasures from the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica. Go to: 99. Athanasius Kircher, Ars magna sciendi. Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1669. The book in its cover.
Hans-Joachim Vollrath, Mathematisches Institut der Universität Würzburg:
Das Pantometrum Kircherianum (in German). See also:
Kircher und die Mathematik. Worth checking out:
Mathematik im Barock,
Athanasius Kircher und Kaspar Schott
(in German). Athanasius Kircher, a teacher in mathematics in Würzburg.
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