Athanasius Kircher
Subtitle: The Last Man Who Knew Everything
Publisher: Routledge
Published: April 28, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780415940153
First sentence: Around 1678, news of the imminent demise of one of the seventeenth century's most fascinating, daring, prolific, and frustrating intellects leaked out of the Roman College, the principal educational institution of the Society of Jesus.