Athanasius Kircher, the Mysteries of the Geocosmos, Magnetism, and the Universe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Athanasius Kircher, the Mysteries of the Geocosmos, Magnetism, and the Universe write by Agustín Udías. This book was released on . Athanasius Kircher, the Mysteries of the Geocosmos, Magnetism, and the Universe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Athanasius Kircher
Athanasius Kircher - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Athanasius Kircher write by Joscelyn Godwin. This book was released on 1979-01-01. Athanasius Kircher available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Athanasius Kircher (1602 - 80) stand out as one of the last all-encompassing minds. For this true Renaissance man, the whole world was a glorious appearance of God waiting to be explored. Kircher was a Jesuit and an archeologist, a phenomenal linguist and an avid collector of scientific instruments. He deciphered archaic languages, experimented with alchemy and music therapy, optics and magnetism. Egyptian mystery wisdom, Greek, Cabbalistic and Christian philosophy met on common ground in his work. Kircher's sumptuous volumes were revered throughout Europe, and his gigantic oeuvre is represented here through striking engravings - most of them reprinted for the first time - together with annotations and an introduction to Kircher's life and work.
Gnosticism
Gnosticism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gnosticism write by J. J. Hurtak. This book was released on 1970-12. Gnosticism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A scholarly approach to a very intriguing subject, the search for a higher knowledge; as recorded by thinkers during the early Christian era. It reveals the "teaching" behind the Coptic (Egyptian Christian) Gnostic literature in Upper Egypt. Here the "Living Word" as understood by the Coptic thinkers is brought to light, in their explanation of the deeper implications of Light, Church, Female and Male, the Fall and Redemption and the work of Christ.
Hesiod's Cosmos
Hesiod's Cosmos - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hesiod's Cosmos write by Jenny Strauss Clay. This book was released on 2003-10-30. Hesiod's Cosmos available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Hesiod's Cosmos offers a comprehensive interpretation of both the Theogony and the Works and Days and demonstrates how the two Hesiodic poems must be read together as two halves of an integrated whole embracing both the divine and the human cosmos. After first offering a survey of the structure of both poems, Professor Clay reveals their mutually illuminating unity by offering detailed analyses of their respective poems, their teachings on the origins of the human race and the two versions of the Prometheus myth. She then examines the role of human beings in the Theogony and the role of the gods in the Works and Days, as well as the position of the hybrid figures of monsters and heroes within the Hesiodic cosmos and in relation to the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women.
Athanasius Kircher
Athanasius Kircher - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Athanasius Kircher write by Paula Findlen. This book was released on 2004-08-02. Athanasius Kircher available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in 2004.Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) -- German Jesuit, occultist, polymath - was one of most curious figures in the history of science. He dabbled in all the mysteries of his time: the heavenly bodies, sound amplification, museology, botany, Asian languages, the pyramids of Egypt -- almost anything incompletely understood. Kircher coined the term electromagnetism, printed Sanskrit for the first time in a Western book, and built a famous museum collection. His wild, beautifully illustrated books are sometimes visionary, frequently wrong, and yet compelling documents in the history of ideas. They are being rediscovered in our own time. This volume contains new essays on Kircher and his world by leading historians and historians of science, including Stephen Jay Gould, Ingrid Rowland, Anthony Grafton, Daniel Stoltzenberg, Paula Findlen, and Barbara Stafford.-
