Oedipus Aegyptiacus is Athanasius Kircher's supreme work of Egyptology. The three full folio tomes of ornate illustrations and diagrams were published...
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24, dated to 1674. The figure is a variant of the Sigillum Aemeth published by Athanasius Kircher in Oedipus Aegyptiacus (Rome, 1652–4, pp. 479–81)....
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attraction such as gravity and love. Perhaps Kircher's best-known work is Oedipus Aegyptiacus (1652–54), a vast study of Egyptology and comparative religion. His...
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allegory in the Old Testament of the Bible, patterned after the Oedipus Aegyptiacus of Kircher. In the book, Drummond seeks possible sources of the Biblical...
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Kircher, who devoted a detailed explanation to the Sigillum Dei in his Oedipus aegyptiacus, who linked the rejection of magical practice with a scholarly effort...
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(1990 ed) Rudd, McLean, p.204 (1990, 2006) "Cabala Hebraeorum" in Oedipus Aegyptiacus, by Athanasius Kircher, ed. Joseph Peterson, hosted at Twilit Grotto...
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Hermeticist and polymath; in 1652, Kircher wrote on the subject in Oedipus Aegyptiacus. Johann Reuchlin, a Catholic humanist (1455–1522), was "Pico's most...
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and 1654, Athanasius Kircher published his version of the tree in Oedipus Aegyptiacus. According to 20th-century occult writer Aleister Crowley, Kircher...
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Machine) 1642–1658. Elementa Philosophica by Thomas Hobbes. 1652–1654. Œdipus Ægyptiacus by Athanasius Kircher. 1655. Novus Atlas Sinensis by Martino Martini...
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with a veil in the same way. In the 1650s, Athanasius Kircher's Oedipus Aegyptiacus explicitly explained Isis's veil as an emblem of the secrets of nature...
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