Comments on: Athanasius Kircher, a Man of Misconceptions - Exclusive excerpts http://boingboing.net/2012/11/15/athanasius-kircher-a-man-of-m.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Tue, 21 May 2013 21:28:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: polossatik http://boingboing.net/2012/11/15/athanasius-kircher-a-man-of-m.html#comment-1584319 polossatik Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:00:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=194449#comment-1584319 Seams only available in electronic format with DRM ... Seams only available in electronic format with DRM …

]]> By: Ashen Victor http://boingboing.net/2012/11/15/athanasius-kircher-a-man-of-m.html#comment-1584238 Ashen Victor Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:26:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=194449#comment-1584238 "But in Kircher's time, every summer, people who claimed they were bitten by the tarantula exhibited an array of troubling symptoms: (...) unusual and excessive thirst for wine. Afflicted women ran around exposing themselves. Men experienced unrelenting erections." Excessive wine. Naked women. Raging erections... There MAY be a correlation... but I can`t put my finger on it... “But in Kircher’s time, every summer, people who claimed they were bitten by the tarantula exhibited an array of troubling symptoms: (…) unusual and excessive thirst for wine. Afflicted women ran around exposing themselves. Men experienced unrelenting erections.”

Excessive wine. Naked women. Raging erections…

There MAY be a correlation… but I can`t put my finger on it…

]]> By: Jonathan Badger http://boingboing.net/2012/11/15/athanasius-kircher-a-man-of-m.html#comment-1584072 Jonathan Badger Fri, 16 Nov 2012 05:05:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=194449#comment-1584072 There's an exhibit on Kircher at the Museum of Jurrassic Technology, focusing on his mystical obsession with magnetism -- it's called <a href="http://www.mjt.org/exhibits/Knots.html" rel="nofollow">The World is Bound With Secret Knots</a>. It's a fun museum, and Kircher is a fun character -- even though he was often wrong, he was wrong for interesting reasons. There’s an exhibit on Kircher at the Museum of Jurrassic Technology, focusing on his mystical obsession with magnetism — it’s called The World is Bound With Secret Knots. It’s a fun museum, and Kircher is a fun character — even though he was often wrong, he was wrong for interesting reasons.

]]> By: Werther deGoethe http://boingboing.net/2012/11/15/athanasius-kircher-a-man-of-m.html#comment-1583856 Werther deGoethe Fri, 16 Nov 2012 01:15:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=194449#comment-1583856 Athanasius Kircher was actually an alchemist, himself. It was quite common among alchemists to decry other alchemists as schemers and cheats. This was their way of keeping the competition for patrons down. His study of Egypt and Egyptology may have very well been part of his search for the Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus. Athanasius Kircher was actually an alchemist, himself. It was quite common among alchemists to decry other alchemists as schemers and cheats. This was their way of keeping the competition for patrons down. His study of Egypt and Egyptology may have very well been part of his search for the Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus.

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