Introduction : the last man who knew everything ... or did he? : Athanasius Kircher, S.J. (1602-80) and his world / Paula Findlen
1. Kircher's rome / Eugenio Lo Sardo
2. Reverie in time of plague : Athanasius Kircher and the plague epidemic of 1656 / Martha Baldwin
3. Kircher and his critics : censorial practice and pragmatic disregard in the society of Jesus / Harald Siebert
4. 'Quasi-optical palingenesis' : the circulation of portraits and the image of Kircher / Angela Mayer-Deutsch
5. Copts and scholars : Athanasius Kircher in Peiresc's Republic of letters / Peter N. Miller
6. Four trees, some amulets, and the seventy-two names of God : Kircher reveals the Kabbalah / Daniel Stolzenberg
7. Kircher's chronology / Anthony Grafton
8. Athanasius Kircher, Giordano Bruno, and the panspermia of the infinite universe / Ingrid D. Rowland
9. Father Athanasius on the isthmus of a middle state : understanding Kircher's paleontology / Stephen Jay Gould
10. The angel and the compass : Athanasius Kircher's magnetic geography / Michael John Gorman
11. Magnetic language : Athanasius Kircher and communication / Haun Saussy
12. Publishing the polygraphy : manuscript, instrument, and print in the work of Athanasius Kircher / Nick Wilding
13. Private and public knowledge : Kircher, esotericism, and the republic of letters / Noel Malcolm
14. Baroque science between the old and the new world : Father Kircher and his colleague Valentin Stansel (1621-1705) / Carlos Ziller Camenietzki
15. A Jesuit's books in the new world : Athanasius Kircher and his American readers / Paula Findlen
16. True lies : Athanasius Kircher's China illustrata and the life story of a Mexican mystic / J. Michelle Molina
17. Athanasius Kircher's China illustrata (1667) : an apologia pro vita sua / Florence Hsia
Epilogue : understanding Kircher in context / Antonella Romano.
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