On the 15th of May, Hermine Lefebvre, USTC/ENSSIB intern for 2014, completed a wonderful cataloguing project which has seen all of St Andrews’ 17th century… Read More »Cataloguing of all 17th Century Books by Athanasius Kircher Complete!
I’ve been doing some work in the stacks lately with our interns and have been focusing some attention on our 17th century reserve collections (around… Read More »Highlight from the stacks: Kircher’s Tower of Babel (1679)
This week’s selection for the ‘Inspiring Illustrations’ thread speaks for itself and needs very little introduction. We have selected the 1650 printing of Athanasius Kircher’s… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 42: Athanasius Kircher’s beautiful Musurgia Universalis (1650)
