Monumenta Kircheri - Revision history

Martín M. Morales: /* Athanasius Kircher, a case study */

2025-09-10T07:03:30Z

Athanasius Kircher, a case study

Martín M. Morales: /* Museo Kircheriano */

2025-09-09T10:17:10Z

Museo Kircheriano

Martín M. Morales: /* Organum Mathematicum */

2025-03-16T16:24:19Z

Organum Mathematicum

Martín M. Morales: /* Museo Kircheriano */

2025-03-16T16:23:26Z

Museo Kircheriano

Martín M. Morales: /* Museo Kircheriano */

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Museo Kircheriano

Martín M. Morales: /* Museo Kircheriano */

2025-03-16T16:10:54Z

Museo Kircheriano

Martín M. Morales: /* Organum Mathematicum */

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Organum Mathematicum

Martín M. Morales: /* Organum Mathematicum */

2025-03-16T16:08:50Z

Organum Mathematicum

Martín M. Morales: /* Museo Kircheriano */

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Museo Kircheriano

Martín M. Morales: /* Museo Kircheriano */

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Museo Kircheriano

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 == Athanasius Kircher, a case study ==
 Umberto Eco famously defined the Jesuit Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) as ‘the most contemporary among our ancestors, and the most outdated among our contemporaries’. We propose to focus on Kircher's Correspondence and on his works. Athanasius Kircher is as a case study to explore the complexities and paradoxes of a ‘long’ modernity, starting from the seventeenth century up to our own world. [[File:Monumenta Kircheri Image.jpg|thumb|<small>Illustration from Kircher's ''Polygraphia nova et universalis ex combinatoria arte detecta'' title-page (Romæ, ex typographia Varesii, 1663).</small>]]In fact, the fundamental aim of this project is to articulate more clearly what is often hidden in every historical research: what matters to us is not in the past, but in the present. From a methodological point of view, we want this project to be not simply inter-disciplinary, but indeed trans-disciplinary. We start from Kircher’s crucial role in the early modern Republic of Letters and we insert Kircher’s case within a larger context involving the question of the nature of knowledge as both a kind of ''savoir faire'' and a kind of ''savoir vivre''. From this perspective, we propose to reconsider Kircher’s vast bibliographical production and the methods of its dissemination, highlighting how Kircher grappled with, and contributed to develop, the concept of ''[[novitas]]'' or ''[[curiositas]]''. Our project is also concerned with the material aspect of culture, and more specifically with the early modern changes in the modes and methods of communicating and disseminating knowledge. The way in which Kircher managed, reproduced, and created knowledge is a lens through which we can understand several fundamental aspects of both the early modern and the modern world, which have been the object of a recent surge of scholarly interest, such as the exponential growth of information and consequently the development of new and more effective techniques to digest, store, and select this new amount of knowledge.<br />
-Thanks to last years’ activities, which have been carried out with high schools students<ref>https://archiviopug.org/tag/scuola-lavoro/</ref>, APUG decided to involve about 70 boys and girls in working on this project. In addition to transcription tasks, they also have to annotate the texts, finding entities such as Names, Works, Places, Terms and Objects.<lb/>
+Thanks to last years’ activities, which have been carried out with high schools students<ref>https://archiviopug.org/tag/scuola-lavoro/</ref>, APUG decided to involve (2017) about 70 boys and girls in working on this project. In addition to transcription tasks, they also have to annotate the texts, finding entities such as Names, Works, Places, Terms and Objects.<lb/>
 === '''Museo Kircheriano''' ===

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 <span style="color:#8B0000; background:#c0c0c0">For all the contents about the Kircherian Museum:</span><lb/>
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-<center>[[Kircherian_Museum|{{Smallcaps|Kircherian Museum}}]]</center><lb/>
+<center>[[Kircherian_Museum|{{Smallcaps|<big>Kircherian Museum</big>}}]]</center><lb/>
 ==='''Organum Mathematicum'''===

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 Recently, it has been observed that “much literature has been published on Athanasius Kircher, but far too little on his Organum mathematicum”.[3] Actually, Kircher’s bibliography, which is currently available on GATE, seems to confirm that impression. Out of more than 600 bibliographic references (references are continuously expanding), those expressly devoted to the Organum are just half a dozen (1%).<lb/>
 <span style="color:#8B0000; background:#c0c0c0">For all the contents about the ''Organum Mathematicum'':</span><lb/>
-[https://gate.unigre.it/mediawiki/index.php/Athanasius_Kircher%E2%80%99s_Organum_mathematicum._On_the_Evolutionary_Improbability_of_an_Information_Processing_Innovation Organum mathematicum]
+<center>[https://gate.unigre.it/mediawiki/index.php/Athanasius_Kircher%E2%80%99s_Organum_mathematicum._On_the_Evolutionary_Improbability_of_an_Information_Processing_Innovation {{Smallcaps|Organum mathematicum}}]
 == Acknowledgements ==

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 <span style="color:#8B0000; background:#c0c0c0">For all the contents about the Kircherian Museum:</span><lb/>
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-[[Kircherian_Museum|{{Smallcaps|Kircherian Museum}}]]<lb/>
+<center>[[Kircherian_Museum|{{Smallcaps|Kircherian Museum}}]]</center><lb/>
 ==='''Organum Mathematicum'''===

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 <span style="color:#8B0000; background:#c0c0c0">For all the contents about the Kircherian Museum:</span><lb/>
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-[[Kircherian_Museum|Kircherian Museum]]<lb/>
+[[Kircherian_Museum|{{Smallcaps|Kircherian Museum}}]]<lb/>
 ==='''Organum Mathematicum'''===

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 For the last few years, the Historical Archives of the Pontifical Gregorian University (APUG) has been conducting, with the generous support of Fondazione Sorgente Group, a research project on the figure and encyclopedic work of the German Jesuit Athanasius Kircher.[1] The project involves the digitalization of Kircher’s works, the digitalization and controlled transcription of his letters,[2] and the collaborative compilation of a universal bibliography on the life, the works and the historical and cultural context in which Athanasius Kircher has lived. This research project focuses specifically on the invention of the Organum mathematicum.
 Recently, it has been observed that “much literature has been published on Athanasius Kircher, but far too little on his Organum mathematicum”.[3] Actually, Kircher’s bibliography, which is currently available on GATE, seems to confirm that impression. Out of more than 600 bibliographic references (references are continuously expanding), those expressly devoted to the Organum are just half a dozen (1%).<lb/>
-<span style="color:#ff0000; background:#c0c0c0">For all the contents about the ''Organum Mathematicum'':</span><lb/>
+<span style="color:8B0000; background:#c0c0c0">For all the contents about the ''Organum Mathematicum'':</span><lb/>
 [https://gate.unigre.it/mediawiki/index.php/Athanasius_Kircher%E2%80%99s_Organum_mathematicum._On_the_Evolutionary_Improbability_of_an_Information_Processing_Innovation Organum mathematicum]

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 The Kircherian Museum, thus named after its first curator, the Jesuit Father Athanasius Kircher, was an encyclopedic collection established at the Roman College in 1651 as a requisite for receiving the legacy bequeathed by the patrician Alfonso Donnino. The museum became relatively famous in its time and is often mentioned in current literature as an example of Early Modern Wunderkammer or Curiosity Cabinet.<lb/>
 <span style="color:#ff0000; background:#c0c0c0">For all the contents about the Kircherian Museum:</span><lb/>
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 [[Kircherian_Museum|Kircherian Museum]]<lb/>