Paula Findlen (ed.)Athanasius Kircher
The Last Man Who Knew Everything
Herausgeber: Findlen, Paula
Introduction: Athanasius Kircher and His World Section I: The Art of Being
Kircher Chapter One: Eugenio Lo Sardo, Kircher's Rome: A Way to Understand
the Celeberrimus Museum Kircherianum Chapter Two: Martha Baldwin, Reveries
in Time of Plague: Kircher and the Plague Epidemic of 1656 Chapter Three:
Harald Siebert, Kircher and His Critics: Censorial Practice and Pragmatic
Disregard in the Society of Jesus Chapter Four: Angela Mayer-Deutsch,
'Quasi-Optical Palingenesis': The Circulation of Portraits and the Image of
Kircher Section II: The Sciences of Erudition Chapter Five: Peter Miller,
Kircher, Peiresc, and the Foundation of Coptic Studies: Or, The Quest for
Barachias Nephi Chapter Six: Daniel Stolzenberg, Four Trees, Some Amulets,
and the Seventy-Two Names of God: Kircher Reveals the Kabbalah Chapter
Seven: Anthony Grafton, Kircher's Chronology Section III: The Mysteries of
Man and the Cosmos Chapter Eight: Ingrid Rowland, Athanasius Kircher,
Giordano Bruno, and the Panspermia of the Infinite Universe Chapter Nine:
Stephen Jay Gould, Father Athanasius on the Isthmus of a Middle State:
Understanding Kircher's Paleontology, a Radical Reassessment for the Most
Important Scholar of a Fascinating Time Chapter Ten: Barbara Stafford,
Leibniz's Cosmology: Reflections in a Kircherian Mirror Section IV:
Communicating Knowledge Chapter Eleven: Haun Saussy, Magnetic Language:
Athanasius Kircher and Communication Chapter Twelve: Nick Wilding,
Publishing the Polygraphy: Manuscript, Instrument, and Print in the Work of
Athanasius Kircher Chapter Thirteen: Noel Malcolm, Private and Public
Knowledge: Kircher, Esotericism and the Republic of Letters Chapter
Fourteen: Michael John Gorman, The Angel and the Compass: Athanasius
Kircher's Geographical Project Section V: The Global Shape of Knowledge
Chapter Fifteen: Carlos Ziller Camenietzki, Baroque Science between the Old
World and the New: Father Kircher and His Fellow Jesuit, Valentin Stansel
(1621-1705) Chapter Sixteen: Paula Findlen, A Jesuit's Books in the New
World: Athanasius Kircher and His American Readers Chapter Seventeen:
Michelle Molina, True Lies: Kircher's China Illustrata and the Life Story
of a Mexican Mystic Chapter Eighteen: Florence Hsia Athanasius Kircher's
China Illustrata (1667): An apologia pro sua vita Epilogue: The Afterlife
of a Polymath Antonella Romano, Kircher in Context
