"Publishing the German Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher (1602–80)
has always been a daunting enterprise. By the end of his life, Kircher pro-
duced a vast scholarly corpus. In 1634, he arrived at the Roman College from
war-torn German-speaking lands; by 1641, the Society of Jesus relieved him of
his professorial obligation to teach mathematics and Oriental languages to
focus on his publications. Almost fifty bulky tomes (mostly in Latin but occa-
sionally in German, Dutch, French, Italian, and English) bore his name. Most
were authored by Kircher; key disciples who assisted him and promulgated
his work (Gaspar Schott, Georg de Sepibus, Gioseffo Petrucci, and Johannes
Kestler) also published Kircherian books."



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