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KIRCHER.
Athanasius Kircher, a famous philosopher and
mathematician, and withal a learned man, was born at
Fulden, in Germany, in the year 1601. He entered into
the society of Jesuits in 1618, and after going through
the regular course of studies, during which he shewed
most amazing parts and industry, he taught philosophy,
mathematics, and the Hebrew and Syriac languages, in
the university of Birtzburg, in Franconia. The war
which Gustavus Adolphus, of Sweden, made in Germany,
disturbing his repose, he retired into France, and settled
in the Jesuits’ college, at Avignon, where he was in
1635. He was afterwards called to Rome, where he
taught music in the Roman college, for six years. He
spent the remainder of his life in that city, and for some
time professed the Hebrew language. He died in 1680,
after having published as many books as one would think
might employ a good part of his life even to transcribe,
for they consist of twenty-two volumes folio, eleven
quarto, and three octavo.
His works are rather curious than useful, frequently
savouring much of visions and fancy, and if they are not
always accompanied with the greatest exactness and pre-
cision, the reader, we presume, will not be astonished.
His principal work is “ Oedipus JEgyptiacus : hoc est,
universalis hieroglyphic® veterum doctrin® temporum
injuria abolit®, instauratis.”—Rom®, 1652, in four vols.
folio.
169
Athanasius Kircher, a famous philosopher and
mathematician, and withal a learned man, was born at
Fulden, in Germany, in the year 1601. He entered into
the society of Jesuits in 1618, and after going through
the regular course of studies, during which he shewed
most amazing parts and industry, he taught philosophy,
mathematics, and the Hebrew and Syriac languages, in
the university of Birtzburg, in Franconia. The war
which Gustavus Adolphus, of Sweden, made in Germany,
disturbing his repose, he retired into France, and settled
in the Jesuits’ college, at Avignon, where he was in
1635. He was afterwards called to Rome, where he
taught music in the Roman college, for six years. He
spent the remainder of his life in that city, and for some
time professed the Hebrew language. He died in 1680,
after having published as many books as one would think
might employ a good part of his life even to transcribe,
for they consist of twenty-two volumes folio, eleven
quarto, and three octavo.
His works are rather curious than useful, frequently
savouring much of visions and fancy, and if they are not
always accompanied with the greatest exactness and pre-
cision, the reader, we presume, will not be astonished.
His principal work is “ Oedipus JEgyptiacus : hoc est,
universalis hieroglyphic® veterum doctrin® temporum
injuria abolit®, instauratis.”—Rom®, 1652, in four vols.
folio.
169