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Athanasius Kircher, S.J. (1602 - 1680) Athanasius Kircher was an influential German Jesuit, occultist, and polymath who worked for much of his life in Rome at the cusp of the Enlightenment. He was a prolific writer, producing over 40 books, some lavishly illustrated, on topics ranging from the arts and linguistics to physics, biology, and earth science. A timeline of his life events and publications is below. Kircher was interested in Earth processes through much of his life. His various conceptual models to draw conclusions about the Earth and its workings are of particular interest to historians of Earth Science. Autobiography (1682): THE LIFE of the Most Reverend Father Athanasius Kircher of the Society of Jesus, a man celebrated throughout the entire world. full transcription and translation available Those works authored by Kircher that include discussion of geological objects and processes include:

Ars Magnesia (1631)

• describes how an eruption of Vesuvius caused magnetic needles to shift direction and marvels at the phenomenon where a red-hot piece of iron is drawn to a magnet.

Magnes sive de arte magnetica opus tripartitum (1641, 1643, and 1654)

• discusses meteorological and terrestrial processes

Itinerarium Exstaticum (1656)

• early discussion of the Cosmos, explained through a dreamplay.

• full transcription and translation available

Iter Exstaticum Secundum (1657)

• early discussion of Earth's inner processes, explained through a dreamplay. Precursor to Mundus.

• full transcription and translation available

Mundus Subterraneus (1664-1678)

• encyclopedic work on natural phenomena related to the Earth as the Geocosm
• partial transcription and translation available

Historia Eustachio Mariana (1665)

• a work intended to help raise funds for the restoration of a a ruined Marian shrine near Guadagnolo, Italy (Santuario Madre delle Grazie della Mentorella). Within the work, Kircher examines the forms and features of regional land surfaces (chorography) through description, illustrations, and maps.
• translation available

China Monumentis, qua sacris qua profanis (1667)

• also abbreviated in English by John Ogilby in Nieuhof, J., 1673, An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham, Emporer of China deliver'd by their excellencies, Peter de Goyer and Jacob de Keyzer, at his imperial city of Peking

The Vulcano鈥檚: or, Burning and Fire--vomiting Mountains, Famous in the World (1669)

• contemporaneous partial translation of the Preface from Mundus as well as paraphrased excerpts of Books 1 and 2.

• transcription available

Timeline of Kircher's life events and publications