Kircher, ATHANASIUS (1601-80), German Jesuit, philologist, physicist, and inventor of the magic lantern. See HIEROGLYPHICS; and Life by Brischar (Würzb. 1877).
Kircher, ATHANASIUS
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 438
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