The fourth edition of the international art exhibition features contemporary art set against the ancient landscape in Egypt.

The book changed owners a few times in the 17th century to become the property of the Rome-based Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher in 1666. It remained in Jesuit possession, mostly unheard of, until ...

The exhibition Off World Colonies, at the artist-run space Indecis in Timișoara, organized by Mimi Ciora and Sergiu Sas, brings together intersecting visions of potential future worlds.

The seventeenth century philologist and failed decipherer of Egyptian texts Athanasius Kircher saw Chinese as a corrupted form of hieroglyphics and thought the Chinese were a long lost tribe of Israel ...

In that one, I tour the world underground with Athanasius Kircher, a 17th-century Jesuit scholar who wrote a lot of books about things he couldn’t possibly have known about, like what’s inside ...

As new literary robots came onto the scene, they inspired familiar debates, including a heated exchange of letters between two 17th-century Germans: Polymath Athanasius Kircher had just invented the ...

called the Cat Piano devised by Athanasius Kircher. In Musurgia Universalis, a book published in 1650, Kircher described the ...

Diese ekstatische Himmelsreise verfasste der an der Hochschule der Jesuiten, dem Collegio Romano zu Rom, lehrende Universalgelehrte Athanasius Kircher. Ein seltsamer Vogel, zwischen Demut und ...

16.05.14 - Die Athanasius-Kircher-Schule bekommt zwei Stahlfluchttreppen für die Klassenräume, die sich in den zwei oberen Stockwerken des Gebäudes A befinden. Der Magistrat der Stadt Fulda hat ...

24.11.23 - Die Geisaer Seniorinnen und Senioren können auf eine lange Tradition zurückblicken und treffen sich monatlich in ihrer Begegnungsstätte im "Athanasius-Kircher Haus" in der Schulstraße.

Ricci and other Jesuits, as Martino Martini and Athanasius Kircher, presented the Mandarins as a sort of Kings-Philosophers of Plato's Republic. Following the works composed by Jesuits, some authors ...

Auch in "Tyll" frönt Kehlmann seiner Neigung zur komödienhaften Wissenschaftsdarstellung: im maliziösen Porträt von Athanasius Kircher, einem der berühmtesten Wissenschaftler des siebzehnten ...