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The Man Who Knew Everything: The Strange Life of Athanasius Kircher

by Marilee Peters
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781554519736
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Annick Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Annick Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 60
  • Original Price: INR 1199.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 204 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology, Science & Nature / History of Science, and History / Renaissance

The Man Who Knew Everything is a biography of Athanasius Kircher, a 17th-century German Jesuit and scientist. He was one of the modern world's first scientific celebrities--the Einstein or Stephen Hawking of his time. In 1638, Kircher was lowered into the smoking crater of Mt. Vesuvius to observe how volcanoes work. After thirty years, he published an 800-page volume of his findings--along with theories about fossils, geography, the Earth's core, dragons, the location of the lost city of Atlantis, and more. Kircher has been described as the last Renaissance man, the first postmodernist, and "the man who knew everything." The Man Who Knew Everything celebrates Kircher's insatiable curiosity, his willingness to ask questions and to suggest answers, even when he sometimes got it wrong. Peters' dramatic re-telling of Kircher's life is complemented by colorized versions of his etchings, and lively illustrations by the award-winning artist, Roxanna Bikadoroff.

Bikadoroff: - Roxanna Bikadoroff is an award-winning artist whose illustrations have been published internationally for more than twenty-five years. Her work has been shown around the world, and has appeared in the New Yorker, The Walrus, and on the covers of books by the likes of Angela Carter, Flannery O'Connor, Bill Richardson, and Roald Dahl.

Peters: - Marilee Peters is a communications officer, magazine editor and author living in Vancouver, BC. Volcano Cowboy is her fourth book from Annick Press.

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