Document Details Ai confini con la magia nella Roma Barocca: gli orologi di padre Athanasius Kircher:
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- Title: Ai confini con la magia nella Roma Barocca: gli orologi di padre Athanasius Kircher
SubTitle: An article in 'La Vocce di HORA, Issue no.25 - December 2008 - Author: Marisa Addomine
- Publisher: HORA - Associazione Italiana Cultori di Orologeri
Keywords: clock
Language: ITA
Notes: Ai confini con la magia nella Roma Barocca: gli orologi di padre Athanasius Kircher La Voce di Hora, Dec 2008 Father Athanasius Kircher, SJ, was an extraordinary character in the cultural panorama of Rome in Baroque times. In his writings, mixing sorcery, empirical experimentation, science, archeological and natural science observations, he intermingled a number f description for timekeepers he invented. Particularly interesting the so-called magnetic clock, horological application of his interest in magnetism, he deeply presented in his Ars Magnetica.
Edition: 2008-12, issue25 -- Copyright: 2008
Kind: Article
Type: Clock (general)
Geographic area: Italy
Topic: History
Organization: ColAssociation
Pages: 11 -- Height in cm: 27
Print Status: 1 (1 means in print - 2 means out of print)
Entered By: fortunat
BHM No: 21949 - Publisher: HORA - Associazione Italiana Cultori di Orologeri
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