KIRCHER, Athanasius (1602 – 1680)
1602 – 1680
4 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1658 CE
#2528.1
Scrutinium physico-medicum contagiosae luis, quae pestis dicitur.
Kircher, a Jesuit scholar and polymath, not specifically trained in medicine, was probably the first to employ the microscope in investigating the cause of disease. He mentioned that the blood of plague patients was f…
1678 CE
#13920
Romani Collegii Societatis Jesu Musaeum celeberrimum.
The first catalogue of Kircher's museum collected by Kircher at the Jesuit College in Rome between 1651 and 1680. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1680 CE
#580
Physiologia Kircheriana experimentalis.
Includes the first recorded experiment in hypnotism in animals.
1709 CE
#12991
Musaeum Kircherianum sive musaeum a P. Athanasio Kirchero in Collegio Romano Societatis Jesu iam pridem incoeptum nuper restitutum, auctum descriptum, & iconibus illustratum....a Philippo Bonanni.
Extensively illustrated catalogue by Bonanni of the Musaeum Kircherianum, formed in the mid-17th century by the Jesuit polymath, Athanasius Kircher, and housed in the Jesuit Collegio Romano. Reflective of Kircher's po…