A study of the fascinating engravings of 17th century Jesuit priest Athanasius Kircher, focussing on the crucial moment in intellectual history, when the Middle Ages met the Scientific Revolution. Now in paperback.

Classical Antiquity ¿ Biblical Archaeology ¿ Natural Phenomena Religion ¿ Astronomy ¿ Topography ¿ Animals and Plants ¿ The Surface and Interior of the Earth ¿ Magnetism ¿ Machines and Music

Joscelyn Godwin is Professor of Music at Colgate University, New York state. He is the author of many books, including A Renaissance Man and the Quest for Lost Knowledge and The Pagan Dream of the Renaissance, both published by Thames & Hudson. He has also edited or translated nineteen other books, including the first complete English translation of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, published by Thames & Hudson in 1999.