Confounding or Stimulating a Lot of Great Minds: John Glassie on Athanasius Kircher at Loyola April 22
By John Sebastian Athanasius Kircher, a seventeenth-century German Jesuit and self-styled “master of a hundred arts,” is credited with inventing the megaphone, a pre-cursor to the computer, and (perhaps) a cat piano. His intense curiosity about the world around him motivated him to pursue studies in fields as disparate as magnetism and magic, optics and acoustics, … Confounding or Stimulating a Lot of Great Minds: John Glassie on Athanasius Kircher at Loyola April 22
