Kircher, Athanasius

Kircher, Athanasius. Table of alchemical equipment and operations. rhttp //www.levitv.com/alchemy/kircher.htmll. 

Kazwini, 22 Ker6nyi, Karl, 13 Khmonou, 115 Kilian, Wolfgang, 169 Kingsford, Anna Bonus, 46 Kircher, Athanasius, 43, 60, 130 Knapp, Augustus, 142, 179 Koie Kosmou, 78, 79 Kriegsmann, W. Christian, 43,61, 101... 

Kircher, Athanasius. AthanasiiKircheri e Soc. IesuMundisubterranei tomus ii in v. librosdigestus (Amsterdam Ex officinaJanssonio-Waesbergiana, 1678). 

Kircher, Athanasius. Delapidephilosophorumdissertatio, reprinted bom Mundussubterraneus, in Manget, Bibliotheca, vol. 1, pp. 54—81. 

One important reason for the emergence of Paracelsian alchemical illustration may have been its function as a psychological compensation for the rejection of Catholic imagery by the Protestants and the resulting spiritual and emotional insecurity experienced by many of the faithful. It is not merely coincidental that Paracelsian iconography should appear in Protestant areas where traditional Catholic icons had been destroyed. (The development of a specihcally Catholic interest in alchemy, however, was a phenomenon of the mid-seventeenth century developed in the work of Athanasius Kircher and other Jesuits.) ... 

For a colourful study of a colourful figure see Joscelyn Godwin, Athanasius Kircher. A Renaissance Man and the Quest for Lost Kiowledge (London Thames and Hudson, 1979). A more specific study of Jesuit alchemy is Martha Baldwin, Alchemy and the Society of Jesus in the Seventeenth Century, Ambix, (1993) 42-52. 

Godwin, Joscelyn, Athanasius Kircher. A Renaissance Man and the Quest for Lost Knowledge (London Thames and Hudson, 1979). 

Priesner, Claus. "Defensor alchymiae Gabriel Clauder versus Athanasius Kircher. Defence strategies of alchemists in the seventeenthth and eighteenth century." In Alchemy revisited, ed. Z.R.W.M. von Martels, 229-238. Leiden Brill, 1990. 

Athanasius Kircher unde seine Beziehungen zum gelehrten Europa seiner Zeit In Kommission bei Otto Harrassowitz, Weisbaden. Wolfenbuttel Herzog August Bibliothek, 1988. 

Godwin, Joscelyn. Athanasius Kircher Renaissance man and the quest for lost knowledge. Thames Hudson, 1979. 96p... 

This systematic table of alchemical operations and apparatus is found in Athanasius Kircher, Mundus Subterraneus... Amsterdam, 1665. Tomus II., page 260". Fascinating -virtually a list of the main facets for a classification scheme... 

Examines the alchemical activities of Martin Del Rio, Franc ois Aguilon, Athanasius Kircher, Francesco Lana Terzi, and Gaspar Schott... 

Father Athanasius Kircher said that the phosphorus was made by pulverizing the Bologna stone, mixing it with white of egg or linseed oil, and calcining it in a special furnace. He found specimens in the alum mines at Tolfa (59). Biographical sketches of Father Kircher were published in The Hormone in 1934. (109) and in the Journal of Chemical Education in 1955 (139). 

Athanasius Kircher, Mundus subtenaneus, vol. 2 (Amsterdam J. Janssen, 1678), 321, as cited and translated in Martha Baldwin, "Alchemy and the Society of Jesus in the Seventeenth Century Strange Bedfellows " Isis 40 (1993) 49-50. 

Athanasius Kircher, Piodiomus coptus (Rome, 1636) Oedipus Aegyptiacus (Rome, 1652-1654). 

How much stronger would be the reaction to the homunculus In the early and mid seventeenth century, influential Catholic authors such as the Minim friar Marin Mersenne and the Jesuit Athanasius Kircher triumphantly broadcast Alonso Tostado s story ofArnald ofVillanova and the smashing of his homunculus flask. A generation earlier Martinus Del Rio,... 

WHO IS ATHANASIUS KIRCHER, AND WHY ARE THEY SAYING THOSE TERRIBLE THINGS 107... 

FIGURE 76. Astrological unity of the microcosm and macrocosm in Athanasius Kircher s Mundus Subterra-neus (1665). The sun is the human heart and the moon the human hrain. (Courtesy J.F. Ptak Science Books.)... 

Athanasius Kircher (1601-1680) in the second volume of his Mundus subterraneus (1664, 1665,1678), devoted chapter 2 of book 10 to miners diseases and the following chapter to their cure. 

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