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Author:
Glassie, John.
Title:
A man of misconceptions : the life of an eccentric in an age of change / John Glassie.
Publisher:
Riverhead Books,
Copyright Date:
2012
Description:
xvi, 335 p. : ill.
Subject:
Kircher, Athanasius,--1602-1680.
Scientists--Germany--Biography.
Intellectuals--Germany--Biography.
Eccentrics and eccentricities--Germany--Biography.
Germany--History--1618-1648--Biography.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
ISBN:
1594488711
9781594488719
LCCN:
2012026023
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)
OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

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