株式会社極東書店トップ ＞ 商品一覧 ＞ A Study of the Life and Works of Athanasius Kircher, 'Germanus Incredibilis' : With a Selection of his Unpublished Correspondence and an Annotated Translation of his Autobiography.
商品詳細
A Study of the Life and Works of Athanasius Kircher, 'Germanus Incredibilis' : With a Selection of his Unpublished Correspondence and an Annotated Translation of his Autobiography.
・ISBN 978-90-04-20712-7 hard EUR 245.00
￥65,488.- (税込) ※（※）価格はご注文時の参考価格となります。
納品価格につきましては書籍の入荷時点で確定となります。
版元の原価改定、外国為替の変動等により異なる場合がございますので、予めご了承下さい。
お気に入り
★★★
電子版あり 大学・学術機関向け電子ブック（eBook）ISBN 978-90-04-21632-7
| 著者・編者 | Fletcher, Elizabeth, |
|---|---|
| シリーズ | Aries Book Series |
| 出版社 | (Brill, NE) |
| 出版年月 | 2011 |
| ページ数 | 633 pp. |
| 言語 | ENG |
| ニュース番号 | ＜584-L21 584-L94＞ |
解説
Athanasius Kircher, a German Jesuit in 17th-century Rome, was an enigma. Intensely pious and a prolific author, he was also a polymath fascinated with everything from Egyptian hieroglyphs to the tiny creatures in his microscope.
His correspondence with popes, princes and priests was a window into the restless energy of the period. It showed first-hand the seventeenth-century's struggle for knowledge in astronomy, microscopy, geology, chemistry, musicology, Egyptology, horology... The list goes on.
Kircher's books reflect the mind-set of 17th-century scholars - endless curiosity and a substantial larding of naivete: Kircher scorned alchemy as the wishful thinking of charlatans, yet believed in dragons.
His life and correspondence provide a key to the transition from the Middle Ages to a new scientific age. This book, though unpublished, has been long quoted and referred to. Awaited by scholars and specialists of Kircher, it is finally available with this edition.
His correspondence with popes, princes and priests was a window into the restless energy of the period. It showed first-hand the seventeenth-century's struggle for knowledge in astronomy, microscopy, geology, chemistry, musicology, Egyptology, horology... The list goes on.
Kircher's books reflect the mind-set of 17th-century scholars - endless curiosity and a substantial larding of naivete: Kircher scorned alchemy as the wishful thinking of charlatans, yet believed in dragons.
His life and correspondence provide a key to the transition from the Middle Ages to a new scientific age. This book, though unpublished, has been long quoted and referred to. Awaited by scholars and specialists of Kircher, it is finally available with this edition.