Der letzte Mann, der alles wusste: Das Leben des exzentrischen Genies Athanasius Kircher

Name: Der letzte Mann, der alles wusste: Das Leben des exzentrischen Genies Athanasius Kircher
Brand: Berlin Verlag
SKU: 9783827011732-N
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By John Glassie

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Kircher's curiosity knew no limits: He was an inventor, biologist, egyptologist, medical professional, astronomer, music scholar, archaeologist, geographer, and author of over forty extensive scientific work. To verify his volcanism theory, he was abrapped into the crater of Vesuv and he was the first to * diseases such as the plague to microorganisms. His museum Cherianum in Rome is a baroque miracle chamber containing talking statues, a precursor of the film projector, the tail of a mermaid, a stone of the tower of Babel and a perpetuum mobile. A coryphere across Europe, upverted churches with popes and corresponded with the great masters of the baroque. But with the harbors of the enlightenment, his star began to sink... Highly entertaining John Glassie tells about the bold life of a faulty genius. His untamable curiosity and pursuit of glory made Kircher to embodiment the knowledge of his time and made him as the Stanford professor Paula Findlen formulated the last man who knew everything.

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Number of Pages:: 352
Release Date:: 2014-11-10
Publication Date:: 2014-11-10
Publisher:: Berlin Verlag
Languages:: Published: German, Original: German
ISBN10:: 3827011736
Weight:: 560 g
Height:: 22.1 cm
Width:: 14.4 cm
Thickness:: 3.5 cm

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