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Publisher
Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A Scientific American Best Science Book of 2012. An Atlantic Wire Best Book of 2012. A New York Times Book Review ?Editor's Choice” The ?fascinating” (The New Yorker) story of Athanasius Kircher, the eccentric scholar-inventor who was either a great genius or a crackpot . . . or a bit of both. The interests of Athanasius Kircher, the legendary seventeenth-century priest-scientist, knew no bounds. From optics to music to magnetism to medicine,...
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