Louis De Vorsey, University of Georgia: Mapping the World Below: Athanasius Kircher and His Subterranean World. Mercator's World, vol. 8 no. 2 (March/April, 2003), pages 28-3.
Michael John Gorman and
Nick Wilding: (website hosted by
Institute and Museum of the History of Science, (Museo Galileo), Florence:
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Athanasius Kircher Correspondence Project.
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Stephen Jay Gould (page hosted by FINDarticles.COM):
Lyell's Pillars of Wisdom.(Charles Lyell)(includes from the works of Lyell, Pliny the Younger, Pliny the Elder,
and Robert Frost). Natural History
April, 1999. Go to:
page 2: Athanasius Kircher (1601-1680).
See also:
The Jew and the Jew Stone. Ruminations earlier views of fossils, medicines, and minorities.
Click "Print this article".
Anthony Grafton, Occasional Papers Series, No. 22 (The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities). The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities was established at the University of California at Berkeley in order to promote interdisciplinary studies in the humanities. Traditions of Conversion: Descartes and His Demon (PDF file). Go to: 1. Conversion and Vocation.
Kite Musical Instruments - Aeolian Instruments: Bibliography of Kite Musical / Aeolian Instruments. Scroll down to Athanasius Kircher. Worth to see: Musurgia Universalis, sive Ars magna consoni et dissoni in X. libros digesta. German translated edition made by Andrea Hirschen, Pfarrer zu Bächlingen in der Grafschaft Hohenloh; Gedruckt zu Schwäbisch Hall bei Hans Reinhard Laidigen/ A. 1662. See this German O-text here (title page and pp.244-245).
MITTEILUNGEN DER RESIDENZEN-KOMMISSION DER AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN ZU GÖTTINGEN JAHRGANG 10 (2000) NR. 1 (PDF-file). Go to pages 47: Pablo A. Schneider, Hamburg: Der Begriff der Natur im Spannungsfeld von Künsten und Wissenschaften Artes et Scientiae. Repräsentation alter und neuer Sichtweisen von "Natur" in der frühen Neuzeit. 10. Jahrestreffen des Wolfenbütteler Arbeitskreises für Barockforschung, Wolfenbüttel, 5.-8. April 2000 (in German). See also here (html).
! Martin Okrusch and Klaus-Peter Kelber, Institute of Mineralogy, University of Würzburg: Erkenntnisse – Phantasien – Visionen. Athanasius Kirchers geologisches Weltbild im Lichte heutiger Anschauungen (in German). Contribution (PDF files) to the exhibition: "Magie des Wissens. Athanasius Kircher 1602-1680: Universalgelehrter - Sammler - Visionär". October 01 – December 14, 2002, Martin von Wagner Museum, Würzburg University.
Societá Italiana di Storia della Scienza, Florence (Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Firenze, Italia): THE CORRESPONDENCE OF ATHANASIUS KIRCHER THE WORLD OF A SEVENTEENTH CENTURY JESUIT. See also here, or there.
Stanford University Libraries: Luna Insight image collections at Stanford. Athanasius Kircher Correspondence. Download Luna Insight (more than 12 MB!) to browse and search Stanford's image collections. Luna Imaging's Insight is a client/server package that provides access to image collections over the Internet. The Insight program, as well as some of Stanford's image collections, are available both to members of the Stanford community and to the general public, though the latter may have somewhat restricted access to some collections. This site and all materials on it are for educational, non-commercial, or personal use only. Excellent!
Dietrich, Unverzagt, Technische Universität Berlin, dissertation.de, 2000 (Thesis, Prof. Dr. Eberhard Knobloch, Prof. Dr. Jean Dhombres): Philosophia, Historia, Technica: Caspar Schotts Magia Universalis (PDF file). ISBN: 3-89825-107-1; 346 pages.
Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel:
Athanasius Kircher to Duke August the Younger.
This pilot project provides a web site with 22 letters from the Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher in Rome to the
founder of the Wolfenbuettel library, Duke August the Younger, from the years 1650-1666. The user will find a
chronological index to the letters. Each transcription is preceded by an English digest and commentary
taken from the survey by John Fletcher: Athanasius Kircher and Duke August of Brunswick-Lüneburg. A chronicle
of friendship. In: Athanasius Kircher und seine Beziehungen zum geelehrten Europa seiner Zeit. Ed. by John Fletcher.
Wiesbaden 1988, p. 99-183. All letters are also digitally reproduced. You can also navigate
from here.
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Joseph W. Dauben, CUNY Graduate Center and Lehman College, (Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia (?)):
The Art of Renaissance Science:
Galileo and Perspective. See also here.
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