“A sundial for sounding the hours,” from Athanasius Kircher’s Ars magna lucis et umbrae (Rome, 1646) (courtesy Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology) On Time: The Quest for Precision ...

In 1665, at the age of 63, the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher appeared to know everything. He had written some 20 books and had several others under way. If you wanted to learn about magnetism, or ...

Technology lovers, especially those with an interest in the history of tinkering, should check out the Athanasius Kircher Society, whose inaugural meeting in January culminated in the firing off of a ...

Animals: Art, Science and Sound (21 April – 28 August 2023) at the British Library reveals how the intersection of science, art and sound has been instrumental in our understanding of the natural ...

A divination table from the exhibit, “The World is Bound with Secret Knots – The Life and Works of Athanasius Kircher, 1602 – 1680.” Museum of Jurassic Technology Palms is a small but densely ...

*He had been an obscure Jesuit professor with a gift for languages, until a public event with stage machinery first made him famous. In theory, quantum physics can bypass the hard mathematical ...