Athanasius Kircher : The Last Man Who Knew Everything (Paperback)

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