Kircher: Turris Babel (1679)
Turris Babel
Athanasius Kircher
Latin
Unknown
297 pages
First English Translation
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Step into the mind of the 'Master of a Hundred Arts' as Athanasius Kircher applies 17th-century science, combinatorial mathematics, and linguistics to the world’s most infamous construction project: the Tower of Babel. Discover how a Jesuit polymath debunked the physical possibility of a tower reaching the moon while mapping the origin of every language and nation on Earth.
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