Online collection: "The Correspondence of Athanasius Kircher: The World of a Seventeenth Century Jesuit" (an international project by the Institute and Museum of History of Science, Florence, Italy)
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Russell Johnson
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Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 19:52:22 -0500
From: "Harry M. Marks, H-SCI-MED-TECH" <smt@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Subject: FYI: Athanasius Kircher correspondence on the web (x-post
mersenne)
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Technology" <H-SCI-MED-TECH@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
From: Michael John Gorman <mgorman@dibinst.mit.edu>
A trial internet publication of the manuscript correspondence of
Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) is now available for consultation free of
charge on the world-wide web at
http://galileo.imss.firenze.it/multi/kircher/index.html
The correspondence is likely to be of interest to historians of
early modern science, technology and medicine. Kircher's
correspondents included Leibniz, Mersenne, Torricelli, Gassendi, Steno,
Hevelius and many other natural philosophers, mathematicians,
astronomers and physicians.
The current web publication, which links images of the letters and other
documents conserved in the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome to a
searchable database, is just the first step in a projected digital
edition of the correspondence.
For further information, please contact mgorman@dibinst.mit.edu
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Michael John Gorman
Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology
Dibner Building, MIT-E56-100
38 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel. (617) 452 2787
Fax (617) 253-9858
E-mail: mgorman@dibinst.mit.edu
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