HPS Colloquia Series for 2000-01
The Program in History and Philosophy of Science presents:
"Baroque Imaginary: The World of Athanasius
Kircher, S. J. (1602-80)"
April 27-28, 2001
Stanford University
The seventeenth-century Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher, who created
a museum of curiosities, antiquities and inventions in the Collegio Romano
and published over thirty books on virtually every imaginable domain of
knowledge, has recently become the subject of renewed interest. Among other
things, his museum has been reconstructed in David Wilson's Museum
of Jurassic Technology and an exhibit will open in Rome in winter 2001.
Many of his manuscripts are now available on-line through the Athanasius
Kircher Correspondence Project.
This conference inaugarates an exhibit of the
Athanasius Kircher Collection, recently acquired by Special Collections,
Stanford University Library. It brings together an international group of
scholars from many disciplines who are exploring the society and culture
of Baroque Europe through the world and world of Kircher.
Conference Program
For more information, contact Paula Findlen at pfindlen@leland.stanford.edu
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