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Earth's Internal Fires, from 'Mundus Subterraneus' (Athanasius Kircher, 1650)
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Athanasius Kircher - Flying cat (17th cent.)
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Daniel M Karlsson, Mapping the valleys of the uncanny, (double CD with accompanying book, digital album), XKatedral, 2023
All music composed by Daniel M Karlsson
Design by Lasse Marhaug
Book typeset in Quadraat by John Chantler
[Cover Art: Athanasius Kircher, Turris Babel, Johannes van Waesbergen / Officina Janssonio-Waesbergiana, Astelodami (Amsterdam), 1679]
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I want to know about the guy who couldn't read hieroglyphics!
So I don’t know when you sent this, but it didn’t come in until Saturday. Which is after Fun Fact Friday. Not to worry, though, we’re saving it for this week! So Today You Learned about Athanasius Kircher!
Fr. Kircher was a German Jesuit priest in the 1600’s, and this dude knew EVERYTHING. Well, not everything, but he was knowledgeable in a surprising variety of fields. Among other things, he:
-made a treatise on China including accurate maps
-deduced that diseases were caused by tiny organisms in the blood
-designed an automaton
-tried to work out where Atlantis was on the map
-climbed down into Mount Vesuvius
-suggested something close to evolution (adaptation based on environment)
-built (though did not design) a magnetic clock
He was crazy good with languages! Kircher was so well-known for it that he was sent the infamous Voynich Manuscript (maybe a Fun Fact for another time?), though he couldn’t understand it, either.
Kircher was also a pioneer in Egyptology, revitalizing the field with his studies. He learned and published about the Coptic language, and recognized some of the patterns in Egyptian hieroglyphs. Through his studies, he translated hieroglyphs centuries before the discovery of the Rosetta Stone!
One problem: he was completely wrong. Dude was smart, but he didn’t know everything, and hieroglyphs were one of the massive gaping holes in his knowledge base. Kircher thought (like many at the time, to be fair) that they were occult symbols, and that they didn’t translate to words the way we think of them, but characters and ideas. Wikipedia’s example lists that there’s one bit that translates to this: “dd Wsr” which means “Osiris says,” (Egyptian writing doesn’t do the vowels).
KIRCHER translated it as: “The treachery of Typhon ends at the throne of Isis; the moisture of nature is guarded by the vigilance of Anubis.”
Yeah, he didn’t have a clue, man. He was the expert, so people believed him.
I suspect that this type of thing is why he got a reputation for being an alchemist and occultist genius, as mentioned in this Fun Fact.
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Submitted with all humility to my honored colleagues: Designs of my Father's, from his Sphinx Mystagoga, that might be handily employed as physicians' staves while treating those afflicted by plague.
Also submitted, ibid, for no reason but that I am fond of them, these beaked and winged serpent fellows.
Hello, little friends.
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Athanasius Kircher | Public Domain Review
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Athanasius Kircher
Mundus subterraneus
1665
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Dragons from Kircher’s Mundus Subterraneus (1664).
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Athanasius Kircher – Scientist of the Day
Athanasius Kircher, A German Jesuit natural philosopher working in Rome, was born May 2, in 1601 or 1602, in Fulda in central Germany.
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#Mumien - in Sphynx mystagoga von Athanase Kircher (Mummies - in “” Sphynx mystagoga”” by Athanase Kircher) Athanasius Kircher#athanasius kircher#mummy
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Deck of Earth (Solar clock, on blackboard) (Athanasius Kircher, 1636)
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“….Kircher developed the idea of God as an organ-builder and organist, and compared the six-day labour of creation with the six registers of a cosmic organ.”
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Athanasius Kircher, Mundus subterraneus, quo universae denique naturae divitiae, 1665
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Smiljan Radic, The Charcoal Burner’s Hut, Culiprán, Chile, 1999
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The Key to Alchemy according to the Egytians
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Early studies of sounds of animals. Musurgia Universalis 1650 work by the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher.
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