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Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680: Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae (in Latin; Rome: Sumptibus H. Scheus, 1646) (page images in Germany)
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680: Mundus Subterraneus, in XII Libros Digestus (2 volumes in 1, in Latin; 1665) (multiple formats at archive.org)
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680: Obeliscus Pamphilius (in Latin; Rome: L. Grignani, 1650) (multiple formats at archive.org)
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680: Oedipus Aegyptiacus (3 volumes, in Latin; Rome: V. Mascardi, 1652-1654)
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680, contrib.: The Vulcano's: or, Burning and Fire-Vomiting Mountains Famous in the World, With Their Remarkables (London: Printed by J. Darby for J. Allen, 1669)

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Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680: (Athanasii Kircheri)...Mvsvrgia vniversalis, sive Ars magna consoni et dissoni in X. libros digesta. (Romae, ex typographia haeredum Francisci Corbelletti, 1650) (page images at HathiTrust)
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680: Ad Alexandrum VII. Pont. Max. Obelisci Aegyptiaci : nuper inter Isaei Romani rudera effossi interpretatio hieroglyphica / (Romae : Ex typographia Varesij, 1666), also by Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi (page images at HathiTrust)
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680: Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Iesu Obeliscus Pamphilius, hoc est, Interpretatio noua & hucusque intentata obelisci hieroglyphici quem non ita pridem ex veteri hippodromo Antonini Caracallae Caesaris, in agonale forum transtulit, integritati restituit & in Vbis Aeternae ornamentum erexit Innocentius X. Pont. Max. : in quo post varia Aegyptiacae, Chaldaicae, Hebraicae, Graecanicae antiquitatis doctrinaeque qua sacrae, qua profanae monumenta, veterum tandem theologia, hieroglyphicis inuoluta symbolis, detecta e tenebris in lucem asseritur. (Romae : Typis Ludouici Grignani, anno iubilei 1650), also by Lodovico Grignani, Pierre Miotte, Giovanni Angelo Canini, and Cornelis Bloemaert (page images at HathiTrust)
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680: Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Iesu Obeliscus Pamphilius : hoc est, interpretatio noua & hucusque intentata obelisci hieroglyphici quem non ita pridem ex veteri Hippodromo Antonini Caracallae Caesaris, in Agonale Forum transtulit, integritati restituit, & in vrbis aeternae ornamentum erexit Innocentius X, Pont. Max. In quo post varia Aegyptiacae, Chaldaicae, Hebraicae, Graecanicae antiquitatis, doctrinaeque quà sacrae, quà profanae monumenta, veterum tandem theologia, hieroglyphicis inuoluta symbolis, detecta è tenebris in lucem asseritur. (Romae : Typis Ludouici Grignani, anno Iubilei MDCL [1650]), also by Lodovico Grignani, Cornelis Bloemaert, Pope Innocent X, and former owner. IU-R Society of Writers to H.M. Signet (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680: Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Iesu Scrutinium physico-medicum contagiosæ luis, quæ pestis dicitur : quo origo, causæ, signa, prognostica pestis, nec non insolentes malignantis naturæ effectus, qui statis temporibus, cælestium influxuum virtute & efficacia, tum in elementis, tum in epidemijs hominum animantiumque morbis elucescunt, vnà cum appropriatis remediorum antidotis nouâ doctrinâ in lucem eruuntur. (Romæ : Typis Mascardi, 1658) (page images at HathiTrust)
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680: Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Iesv Iter extaticvm II. qui & mundi subterranei prodromvs dicitur. Qvo geocosmi opificivm, sive terrestris globi structura, vna cum abditis in ea constitutis arcanioris naturæ reconditorijs, per ficti raptus integumentum exponitur ad veritatem. In III. dialogos distinctum .. (Romæ, typis Mascardi, 1657) (page images at HathiTrust)
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680: Athanasii Kircheri è Soc. Jesu Arca Noë, in tres libros digesta : quorum I, De rebus quae ante diluvium : II, De iis, quae ipso diluvio ejusque duratione : III, De iis, quae post diluvium a Noëmo gesta sunt : quae omnia novâ methodo, nec non summa argumentorum varietate, explicantur & demonstrantur. (Amstelodami : Apud Joannem Janssonium à Waesberge, anno 1675), also by Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge and Cornelis Gerritsz. Decker (page images at HathiTrust)
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680: Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Jesu Arca Noe in tres libros digesta, : quorum I. De rebus quae ante diluvium, II. De ii, quae ipso diluvio ejusaue duratione, III. De iis, quae post diluvium a Noemo gesta sunt, quae omnia nova Methodo, nec non summa argumentorum varietate, explicantur, & demonstrantur. (Amstelodami : Apud Joannem Janssonium a Waesberge, anno [MD] C LXXV [1675]), also by Cornelis Gerritsz. Decker, King of Spain Charles II, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge, and former owner. MChB-B Weston School of Theology (page images at HathiTrust)
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680: Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Jesu Ars magna sciendi, in XII libros digesta : qua nova & universali methodo per artificiosum combinationum contextum de omni re proposita plurimis & prope infinitis rationibus disputari, omniumque summaria quaedam cognitio comparari potest. (Amstelodami : Apud Joannem Janssonium à Waesberge, & viduam Elizei Weyerstraet, anno 1669) (page images at HathiTrust)
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680: Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Jesu China monumentis, qua sacris quà profanis, nec non variis naturae & artis spectaculis, aliarumque rerum memorabilium argumentis illustrata auspiciis Leopoldi primi, Roman. Imper. semper Augusti, munificentissimi mecaenatis. (Amstelodami : Apud Jacobum à Meurs, 1667), also by Jacob van Meurs and Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I (page images at HathiTrust)
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680: Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Jesu China monumentis : qvà sacris quà profanis, nec non variis naturae & artis spectaculis, aliarumque rerum memorabilium argumentis illustrata, auspiciis Leopoldi Primi Roman. Imper. semper Augusti munificentissimi mecaenatis. (Apud Joannem Janssonium à Waesberge & Elizeum Weyerstraet, Amstelodami :, Anno cIc Icc lxvii [1667]), also by Elizaeus Weyerstraten, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge, Jacob van Meurs, and Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I (page images at HathiTrust)
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680: Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Jesu Itinerarium exstaticum quo mundi opificium : id est coelestis expansi, siderumque tam errantium, quàm fixorum natura, vires, proprietates, singulorumque compositio & structura, ab infimo telluris globo, usque ad ultima mundi confinia, per ficti raptus integumentum explorata, nova hypothesi exponitur ad veritatem : interlocutoribus Cosmiele et Theodidacto (Romae : Typis Vitalis Mascardi, 1656) (page images at HathiTrust)
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680: Athanasii Kircheri è Soc. Jesu Latium, id est, Nova & parallela Latii tum veteris tum novi descriptio : qua quaecunque vel natura, vel veterum Romanorum ingenium admiranda effecit, geographico-historico-physico ratiocinio, juxta rerum gestarum, temporumque seriem exponitur & enucleatur. (Amstelodami : Apud Joannem Janssonium à Waesberge, & haeredes Elizei Weyerstraet, anno M DC LXXI [1671]), also by Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge, Agapito de Bernardini, Innocenzo Mattei, Romeyn de Hooghe, and Haeredes Elizei Weyerstraet (page images at HathiTrust)
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680: Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Jesu Mundus subterraneus : in XII libros digestus; quo divinum subterrestris mundi opificium, mira ergasteriorum naturae in eo distributio, verbo Pantamorphon [Greek work romanized] Protei regnum, universae denique naturae majestas & divitiae summa rerum varietate exponuntur, abditorum effectuum causae acri indagine inquisitae demonstrantur, cognitae per artis & naturae conjugium ad humanae vitae necessarium usum vario experimentorum apparatu, necnon novo modo & ratione applicantur. (Amstelodami [Amsterdam, Netherlands] : Apud Joannem Janssonium à Waesberge & filios, anno MDCLXXVIII. [1678]), also by Johann Paul Schor, Theodor Matham, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge, Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I, Pope Alexander VII, and Duveen Alchemy and Chemistry Collection WU (page images at HathiTrust)
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680: Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Jesu Turris Babel, sive, Archontologia qua primo priscorum post diluvium hominum vita, mores rerumque gestarum magnitudo, secundo Turris fabrica civitatumque extructio, confusio linguarum, & inde gentium transmigrationis, cum principalium inde enatorum idiomatum historiia, multiplici eruditione describunter & explicantur. (Amstelodami : Ex officina Janssonio-Waesbergianna, anno 1679), also by Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge, Lieven de Cruyl, Coenraet Decker, Gérard de Lairesse, and Johannes Willemsz. Munnickhuysen (page images at HathiTrust)
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680: Athanasii Kircheri è Societ. Jesu, Sphinx mystagoga, sive, Diatribe hieroglyphica : qua mumiae, ex Memphiticis pyramidum adytis erutae, & non ita pridem in Galliam transmissae, juxta veterum hieromystarum mentem, intentionemque, plena fide & exacta exhibetur interpretatio : ad inclytos, abstrusiorumque cognitionum peritia instructissimos Galliae philologos directa. (Amstelodami : Ex officina Janssonio-Waesbergiana, anno MDCLXXVI [1676]), also by Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge and Coenraet Decker (page images at HathiTrust)
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680: Athanasii Kircheri Fuldensis Buchonii, e Soc. Iesu ... Magnes, siue, De arte magnetica opus tripartitum : quo praeterquam quod vniuersa magnetis natura, eiusque in omnibus artibus & scientijs vsus noua methodo explicetur, è viribus quoque & prodigiosis effectibus magneticarum, aliarumqu[ue] abditarum naturae motionum in elementis, lapidibus, plantis & animalibus elucescentium multa hucusque incognita naturae arcana per physica, medica, chymica & mathematica omnis generis experimenta recluduntur. (Coloniae Agrippinae : Apud Iodocvm Kalcoven, anno M. DC. XLIII. [1643]), also by Jost Kalckhoven (page images at HathiTrust)
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680: Athanasii Kircheri Fuldensis Buchonii e Soc. Iesu Prodromus Coptus sive Aegypticus : in quo cùm linguae Coptae, siue Aegyptiacae, quondam pharaonicae, origo, aetas, vicissitudo, inclinatio, tùm hieroglyphicae literaturae instauratio, vti per varia variarum eruditionum, interpretationumque difficillimarum specimina, ita noua quoque & insolita methodo exhibentur. (Romae : Typis S. Cong. de propag. fide, 1636) (page images at HathiTrust)
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680: Athanasii Kircheri Fvldensis e Soc. Iesv presbyteri Mvsvrgia vniversalis : sive Ars magna consoni et dissoni, in X libros digesta. (Romae : Ex typographia Haeredum Francisci Corbelletti, 1650), also by Jacobus Viva (page images at HathiTrust)
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680: Athanasii Kircheri ... Prodromvs Coptvs sive Aegyptiacvs ... : in quo cùm linguae Coptae, siue Aegyptiacae, quondam pharaonicae, origo, aetas, vicissitudo, inclinatio; tùm hieroglyphicae literaturae instauratio, vti per varia variarum eruditionum, interpretationumque difficillimarum specimina, ita noua quoque & insolita methodo exhibentur (Romae : Typis S. Cong: de propag: Fide, 1636) (page images at HathiTrust)
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680: Athanasij Kircheri e Societate Iesu Arithmologia, siue, De abditis numerorum mysterijs : qua origo, antiquitas & fabrica numerorum exponitur : abditae eorundem proprietates demonstrantur : fontes superstitionum in amuletorum fabrica aperiuntur : denique post cabalistarum, Arabum, gnosticorum, aliorumque magicas impietates detectas, vera & licita numerorum mystica significatio ostenditur. (Romae : Ex typographia Varesij, 1665) (page images at HathiTrust)
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680: An embassy from the East-India company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham, emperour of China, delivered by their excellcies Peter de Goyer and Jacob de Keyzer, at his imperial city of Peking. (London, Printed by J. Macock for the author, 1669), also by Johannes Nieuhof, Johann Adam Schall von Bell, Jacob de Keizer, Pieter de Goyer, and Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie, trans. by John Ogilby (page images at HathiTrust)
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680: Gezantschap der Neerlandtsche Oost-Indische Compagnie aan den grooten Tartarischen Cham, den tegenwoordigen keizer van China. English (London : Printed by the Author at his house in White-Friers, 1673), also by Johannes Nieuhof, Pieter de Goyer, Jacob de Keizer, John Ogilby, Johann Adam Schall von Bell, and Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680: La Chine d'Athanase Kirchere ... illustrée de plusieurs monuments tant sacrés que profanes, et de quantité de recherchés de la nature et de l'art. A quoy on à adjousté de nouveau les questions curieuses que le serenissime grand duc de Toscane a fait dépuis peu au P. Jean Grubere touchant ce grand empire. Avec un dictionnaire chinois & françois, lequel est tres-rare, & qui n'a pas encores paru au jour. (Amsterdam, Ches J. Jansson à Waesberge & les heritiers d'Elizée Weyeratraet, 1670), also by Johann Grueber, trans. by F. S. Dalquié (page images at HathiTrust)
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680: Musaeum Kircherianum, sive, Musaeum a P. Athanasio Kirchero in Collegio Romano Societatis Jesu jam pridem incoeptum nuper restitutum, auctum, descriptum, & iconibus illustratum : excellentissimo Domino Francisco Mariae Ruspolo antiquae urbis Agyllinae Principi / (Romae : Typis Georgii Plachi caelaturam profitentis, & characterum fusoriam propè S. Marcum, MDCCIX [1709]), also by Filippo Buonanni, Francesco Maria Ruspoli, Giorgio Placho, and Collegio romano. Museo (page images at HathiTrust)
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680: P. Gasparis Schotti, Regiscuriani e Societate Jesu ... Technica curiosa, sive, Mirabilia artis, libris XII comprehensa ... (Norimbergae : Sumptibus Johannis Andreae Endteri & Wolfgangi Junioris haeredum, excudebat Jobus Hertz, typographus Herbipol., anno 1664), also by Gaspar Schott, Jobst Hertz, Johann Andreas Endter, and Johann Friedrich Fleischberger (page images at HathiTrust)
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680: Pantometrum Kircherianum, hoc est, Instrumentum geometricum novum à celeberrimo viro P. Athanasio Kirchero ante hac inventum : nunc decem libris, universam paenè practicam geometriam complectentibus explicatum, perspicuisque demonstrationibus illustratum / (Herbipoli [Würzburg] : Excudebat Jobus Hertz ... ; [Frankfurt am Main] : Sumptibus haeredum Joannis Godefridi Schönwetteri bibliopol. Francofurtens., anno 1660), also by Gaspar Schott, Jobst Hertz, Andreas Frölich, and Witwe und Erben von Johann Gottfried Schönwetter (page images at HathiTrust)
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680: Physiologia Kircheriana experimentalis : qua summa argumentorum multitudine & varietate naturalium rerum scientia per experimenta physica, mathematica, medica, chymica, musica, magnetica, mechanica comprobatur atque stabilitur / (Amstelodami : Ex Officinâ Janssonio-Waesbergiana, anno MDCLXXX [1680]), also by Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge and Johann Stephan Kestler (page images at HathiTrust)
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680: Primitiae gnomonicae catoptricae, hoc est, Horologiographiae nauae specularis ... / (Auenione : Ex typographia I. Piot ..., 1635) (page images at HathiTrust)
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680: Romani Collegii Societatis Jesu Musaeum celeberrimum : cujus magnum antiquariae rei, statuarum, imaginum, picturarumque partem ex legato Alphonsi Donini, S.P.Q.R., a secretis, munificâ liberalitate relictum / (Amstelodami : Ex Officina Janssonio-Waesbergiana, anno MDCLXXVIII [1678]), also by Collegio romano. Museo, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge, Alphonsus Doninus, and Georgius de Sepibus (page images at HathiTrust)
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680: Toonneel van China, door veel, zo geestelijke als weereltlijke geheugteekenen, verscheide vertoningen van de natuur en kunst, en blijken van veel andere gedenkwaerdige dingen, geopent en verheerlykt : nieuwelijks door d'E. Vader Athanasius Kircherus ... in't Latyn beschreven, en van J. H. Glazemaker vertaalt ; met een groot getal van kunstige kopere platen verçiert. (t'Amsterdam : By Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge, in't jaar 1668), also by J. H. Glazemaker (page images at HathiTrust)

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