Comments on: Happy birthday, Athanasius Kircher

By: M. Scott

M. Scott — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:32:16 +0000

Ralph, I couldn’t agree more. Kircher has been denied his due.

You could use Kircher’s life as the basis for a novel, but there wouldn’t be a novel that tops the real story. (A newly published book you might like, if you haven’t already read it, is “A Man of Misconceptions” by John Glassie. I recommend it along with the sources cited above.)

I’ve long thought Kircher deserves a movie. I was thinking Russell Crowe. If you wanted to focus on Kircher’s quirkier side, maybe Rainn Wilson.

By: Ralph Pifer

Ralph Pifer — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:15:38 +0000

Kircher was a talanted man–of that there is little doubt. His life would make a good movie script or basis for a novel. Harrison Ford are you listening?? It is a shame Kircher has often been neglected in the history of science. Perhaps it was his bigger than life adventures that led to this–or perhaps it was too eay to dismiss him becuse sometimes he did believe in dragons. Ben Franklin believed in air baths, but we still regard him highly. I hope this site educates a few people about this very interesting
man and his place in history.

By: John Wicox

John Wicox — Fri, 04 May 2012 19:37:49 +0000

Very cool article. Kircher’s diagram of the Earth is a very interesting map. Could see that as art on many victorian home walls.

By: Felipe Cervantes

Felipe Cervantes — Wed, 02 May 2012 01:22:02 +0000

Interesting…someone (Kircher) going down in a active crater