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_beng
_erda
_cStDuBDS
_dUk
_dEG-ScBUE
082 0 4 _a943.04092
_bGOD
_222
100 1 _aGodwin, Joscelyn,
_eauthor.
_941944
245 1 0 _aAthanasius Kircher's theatre of the world /
_cJoscelyn Godwin.
250 _aFirst paperback edition.
264 1 _aLondon :
_bThames & Hudson,
_c2015.
300 _a304 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c24 cm
336 _2rdacontent
_atext
_btxt
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
_bn
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
500 _aOriginally published: 2009.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aPrologue: Interesting times -- Kircher's life and work : an overview -- Frontispieces -- The illustration of Kircher's works -- Antiquity misread -- Antiquity preserved -- Antiquity imagined -- Naturalia : fire and water -- Naturalia : air and earth -- Music -- Machines of past and present -- Machines : magnetic and optical -- Maps and plans -- Exotica -- Images of the gods -- Didactic images -- Athanasius Kircher's writings.
520 _a"A major study of both the written and pictorial work of a neglected genius whose breadth of interest made him the last Renaissance man."
600 1 7 _aKircher, Athanasius,
_d1602-1680
_xCriticism and interpretation.
_2BUEsh
650 7 _aIllustration of books
_zGermany
_y17th century.
_2BUEsh
651 7 _aGermany
_xIntellectual life
_y17th century.
_2BUEsh
653 _bHHUUEENN
655 _vReading book
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