The last Polymath? An Overview of the Literature on the Life and Work of Athanasius Kircher (1602–1680)

Abstract

Article summarizes bibliography to the life and work of baroque polymath Athanasius Kircher. It outlines Kircher’s philosophical basis and his experimental praxis.

Keywords

• The
• last
• Polymath
• Overview
• the
• Literature
• the
• Life
• and
• Work
• Athanasius
• Kircher
• (1602–1680)