Athanasius Kircher is having a very good year. This month marks the 400th birthday of the Jesuit polymath -- who, by the time he died in 1680, had published enough encyclopedic works to fill a small ...

Frequently described as "the last man who knew everything," 17th-century Jesuit Athanasius Kircher was a true polymath. Born ...

How did a man who got so many things wrong become an intellectual celebrity in his own lifetime? In 1680, a small procession of Jesuits ascended a winding path to the mountaintop shrine of Mentorella, ...

Athanasius Kircher (1602-80), having been neglected for centuries, has become something of a fashionable figure in recent times. Joscelyn Godwin, the author of this beautifully produced book, relates ...

According to the memoir of Athanasius Kircher, even the circumstances of his birth were auspicious. And in a sense they were, if you choose, as he did, to leave out the witch hunt. Kircher's mother ...

Global Baroque surveys the triumphant internationalism of a new age of vast and rapid interchanges of art and culture, with Rome at its center. Animals: Art, Science and Sound (21 April – 28 August ...