Athanasius Kircher
by Paula Findlen · first published 2004
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"Athanasius Kircher: the Last Man Who Knew Everything" by Paula Findlen, a history professor at Stanford, is a good book that touches on this: https://books.google.com/books?id=C0iGO0Hr95UC One way of thinking about it…
on “Lost library of John Dee to be revealed” ↗…Isaac Asimov's non-fiction. There are at least five books with the (partial) title _The Last Man Who Knew Everything_ about: - Leibniz https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15770928-the-last-man-wh... - Athanasius Kircher https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119131.Athanasius_Kirche... - Thomas Young https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/763029.The_Last_Man_Who_... - Joseph Leidy https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119125.Joseph_Leidy…
on “Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History” ↗