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

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The Man Who Knew The whole lot is a biography of Athanasius Kircher, a 17th-century German Jesuit and scientist. He was once some of the brand new world’s first scientific celebrities―the Einstein or Stephen Hawking of his time. In 1638, Kircher was once 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―together 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 The whole lot.” The Man Who Knew The whole lot celebrates Kircher’s insatiable curiosity, his willingness to ask questions and to suggest answers, even if he once in a while were given it fallacious.

Peters’ dramatic re-telling of Kircher’s life is complemented by colorized versions of his etchings, and full of life illustrations by the award-winning artist, Roxanna Bikadoroff.

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