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{{AKC Bibliography entries
|Name(s)=Rowland, Ingrid D.;
|Title=<i>Athanasius Kircher on the beauty of knowing everything</i>
|Year=2016
|Language=eng
|Contained in=<i>What Reason Promises. Essays on Reason, Nature and History</i>, ed. by Wendy Doniger, Peter Galison,  Susan Neiman, De Gruyter, 2016, pp. 228-233
|Bibliographic level=Book chapter
}}
=== Abstract<ref>Copied from the book.</ref>===
Even as Athanasius Kircher self-celebrates citin Plato ("There is nothing more beautiful than knowing everything"), Kircher is reinterpreting and reascribing. Beyond the irony of not quite knowing the "knowing everything", a closer reading points allusively to the always interpreted, always re-worked nature of history.