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Egyptian Oedipus: Athanasius Kircher and the Secrets of Antiquity Daniel Stolzenberg
Egyptian Oedipus: Athanasius Kircher and the Secrets of Antiquity
Daniel Stolzenberg
Athanasius Kircher, S J was one of Europe's most inventive and versatile scholars in the baroque era. This book presents an interpretation of Kircher's hieroglyphic studies, placing them in the context of seventeenth-century scholarship on paganism and Oriental languages.
320 pages, 42 halftones
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | May 15, 2015 |
| ISBN13 | 9780226273273 |
| Publishers | The University of Chicago Press |
| Genre | Interdisciplinary Studies > Renaissance Studies |
| Pages | 320 |
| Dimensions | 229 × 156 × 23 mm · 502 g |