College of annlc? Likely a library ownership mark
Regular Clerics of Saint Paul Also known as the Barnabites
Reverend Father
ATHANASIUS KIRCHER
OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS
CELESTIAL ECSTATIC JOURNEY,
In which the construction of the world—that is, the nature, powers, and properties
of the Heavenly Expanse and the stars, both wandering and fixed,
as well as the composition and structure of each, from the lowest globe of Earth
to the furthest boundaries of the Universe, explored under the veil of a fictional transport—
is explained according to the truth by a new hypothesis,
WITH THE DIALOGUE PARTNERS
COSMIELE AND THEODIDACTUS:
In this second edition, illustrated with Introductions and Scholarly Commentaries;
adorned with the necessary diagrams which were previously lacking; and
furthermore purged of the errors which had crept into
the first Roman edition,
WITH THE AUTHOR’S OWN APPROVAL,
By
FATHER GASPAR SCHOTT
OF KÖNIGSHOFEN, FROM THE SOCIETY OF JESUS,
Formerly Professor of Mathematics in the Gymnasium of the same SOCIETY OF JESUS
at Palermo in Sicily, and now at Würzburg in
Franconia.
To which is added, by the same Author
TERRESTRIAL ECSTATIC JOURNEY,
and
SYNOPSIS OF THE SUBTERRANEAN WORLD.
AT WÜRZBURG
At the expense of the heirs of Johann Andreas and Wolfgang Endter the Younger,
Available at their shop in Nuremberg.
IN THE YEAR 1660.