Athanasius Kircher's Theatre of the World (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
304
Utgivningsdatum
2015-02-09
Förlag
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Illustratör/Fotograf
With 410 illustrations
Illustrationer
With 410 illustrations
Dimensioner
283 x 256 x 27 mm
Vikt
1776 g
ISBN
9780500291740

Athanasius Kircher's Theatre of the World

av Joscelyn Godwin
Häftad,  Engelska, 2015-02-09
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Athanasius Kircher (160280) 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 Inevitably, his work has been superseded in most areas of study, but he remains a key figure in the history of ideas and in recent years there has been a revival of interest, in which Joscelyn Godwin has played a leading role. But while every other aspect of his thought has been studied, the fascinating engravings with which he illustrated his ideas have been largely ignored. This book fills that gap. It is divided into 15 chapters grouped by the engravings subject; these illustrations reveal his singular mind and the way he was drawn to mysticism and magic.
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'Magisterial ... a beautiful, absorbing and utterly wonderful book' - Times Higher Education 'An enchanting compendium of curiosities ... a stupendously good piece of design. Every illustration is reproduced in exactly the right place; the captions are superbly apt and very clearly signalled; the sidebars are tactfully positioned and filled with exactly the right amount of information. The author and the publisher have taken real, prolonged, and exhaustive pains to make a beautiful book, and succeeded' - Philip Pullman, Guardian

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Joscelyn Godwin is Professor of Music at Colgate University, New York state. He is the author of many books, including A Renaissance Man and the Quest for Lost Knowledge and The Pagan Dream of the Renaissance, both published by Thames & Hudson. He has also edited or translated nineteen other books, including the first complete English translation of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, published by Thames & Hudson in 1999.

Innehållsförteckning

Classical Antiquity Biblical Archaeology Natural Phenomena Religion Astronomy Topography Animals and Plants The Surface and Interior of the Earth Magnetism Machines and Music

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