- First name
- Athanasius
- Last name
- Kircher
- Date of Birth
- 1602
- Date of Death
- 1680
- Born in
- Geisa
- Died in
- Rome
Athanasius Kircher was a Jesuit who lectured ethics and mathematics in Würzburg (1628), and from 1638 onwards physics, mathematics and oriental languages in Rome. He issued about forty works on a wide variety of subjects, ranging from vulcanoes (Mundus subterraneus) and magnetism (Magnes sive de arte magnetica, 1641) to egyptology (Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 1652–4) and technology (Ars magna lucis et umbrae, 1646). See: Fletcher, 2011; DBI.
Kircher's Mundus subterraneus was one of the topics that Christiaan Huygens and Spinoza discussed somewhere before October 1665 (cf. 1665.[10].[01], Ep 30A/B).