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Bezig met laden... A Man of Misconceptions: The Life of an Eccentric in an Age of Changedoor John Glassie
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.   ) Skybalon | Mar 19, 2020 |  The book is filled with the tabloid fodder of the day: Queen Christina, who abdicated her throne (and worse, became a Protestant), was rumored to be an hermaphrodite, or a lesbian, and to have killed René Descartes! Not all the tidbits are farcical. After the Great Fire in London in 1666, Christopher Wren--the architect--rebuilt 51 of the 84 churches thus destroyed, including St. Paul's Cathedral. The author, a writer for several magazines and of a photo book, took on an ambitious project for his first book-length project. Tighter editing could have been a help. (  ) kaulsu | Mar 26, 2015 | Drily humorous account of Kircher's life. Unfortunately so much of the book is spent on describing the intellectual milieus Kircher was working in, other people's reaction to him, and his indirect legacy that Kircher himself and his thought remain rather elusive. Even more unfortunately, although the endnotes in the ebook link back to the text, the text does not link to the endnotes. ( ) Robertgreaves | Sep 9, 2014 | With my usual gripe that the notes ought to be indicated in the text, the references are at least very thorough and provide plenty of extra fodder for the curious reader who finishes Glassie's book and wants to dig deeper. (  ) JBD1 | Dec 2, 2012 |
 How did a man who got so many things wrong [sc. Kircher] become an intellectual celebrity in his own lifetime? His world and works are the subject of John Glassie’s lively and accessible A Man of Misconceptions, the first biography of Kircher to appear in English since Father Conor Reilly’s study from 1974. Relying heavily on the research of several generations of scholars, starting with the learned John Fletcher, Glassie does not offer new facts about Kircher’s life. What he does instead is retell the tale of Kircher for an audience who may be familiar with the era only through the ideas of its intellectual giants: Galileo, Descartes, Newton and Leibniz. Glassie’s Kircher is an eccentric and itinerant scholar of multiple and only partially realized talents.
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, he offered up inventions and theories for everything, and they made him famous across Europe. His celebrated museum in Rome featured magic lanterns, speaking statues, the tail of a mermaid, and a brick from the Tower of Babel. Holy Roman Emperors were his patrons, popes were his friends, and in his spare time he collaborated with the Baroque master Bernini. But Kircher lived during an era of radical transformation, in which the old approach to knowledge--what he called the "art of knowing"-- was giving way to the scientific method and modern thought. A Man of Misconceptions traces the rise, success, and eventual fall of this fascinating character as he attempted to come to terms with a changing world. With humor and insight, John Glassie returns Kircher to his rightful place as one of history's most unforgettable figures. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)943.041092History and Geography Europe Germany and central Europe Historical periods of Germany Disintegration 1618-1705 Thirty years' war 1618-48LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: (3.58)
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