Happy birthday to the great polymath and “Master of a Hundred Arts” Athanasius Kircher,
Happy birthday to the great polymath and “Master of a Hundred Arts” Athanasius Kircher, who was born in Germany on this day in 1602.⠀⠀Pictured here is the frontispiece to Ars magna lucis et umbrae (The Great Art of Light and Shadow) , his huge 1646 treatise on the nature of light, lenses, mirrors, sundials, astrology and astronomy. The book is discussed in our latest essay which looks at Kircher’s use of the microscope and his ideas on the origins of the plague. Click link in bio to read.⠀.⠀.⠀.⠀.⠀.⠀#athanasiuskircher #onthisday #otd #microscopes #plague #light #lenses #books #bookstagram #arthttps://www.instagram.com/p/B_sPMCwJuxe/?igshid=jxeva520fqti -- source link
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