The Enigmatic Inspirations Behind Ambrose and His Universe

[…] Athanasius Kircher was, to put it bluntly, a man who never met a subject he didn’t want to master. Born in 1602, at a time when science and mysticism still held hands in polite society, he became one of the most prolific, eccentric, and insatiably curious scholars of his era. He wasn’t just dabbling in a field or two—he was attempting to connect all human knowledge into a single, coherent system. The sheer audacity of it is almost endearing.

The book written by John Glassie dives deep into Kircher’s astonishingly broad range of studies. He was a… […]