A man of misconceptions : the life of an eccentric in an age of change /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Glassie, John
Format: Book
Language:English
Created: New York : Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2012.
Subjects:
Kircher, Athanasius, > 1602-1680.
Scientists > Germany > Biography.
Intellectuals > Germany > Biography.
Eccentrics and eccentricities > Germany > Biography.
Science > Germany > History > 17th century.
Germany > History > 1618-1648 > Biography.
Germany > History > 1648-1740 > Biography.
Germany > Intellectual life > 17th century.
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Table of Contents:
  • Apologetic Forerunner to This Kircherian Study
  • Part One
  • Incapable of Resisting the Force
  • Inevitable Obstacles
  • A Source of Great Fear
  • Scenic Proceedings
  • Chief Inciter of Action
  • Beautiful Reports
  • Part Two
  • Secret Exotic Matters
  • Habitation of Hell
  • The Magnet
  • An Innumerable Multitude of Catoptric Cats
  • Four Rivers
  • Egyptian Oedipus
  • The Admiration of the Ignorant
  • Little Worms
  • Philosophical Transactions
  • Underground World
  • A Dream
  • Everything
  • Part Three
  • Not As It Was
  • Immune and Exempt
  • Mentorella
  • Closest of All to the Truth
  • The Strangest Development.

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