A Study of the Life and Works of Athanasius Kircher, ‘Germanus Incredibilis’
With a Selection of his Unpublished Correspondence and an Annotated Translation of his Autobiography
Athanasius Kircher, a German Jesuit in 17th-century Rome, was an extraordinary polymath. His fascinating correspondence with popes, princes and priests was a key to the mind-set of the period, and the transition from medieval to modern scientific thinking.
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