Phonurgia Nova
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First Complete Translation
Only partial translations or excerpts exist. This is the first complete English translation.
Extensive searches of scholarly catalogs, library databases, and academic repositories confirm that while Athanasius Kircher's 'Phonurgia Nova' (1673) is frequently cited and discussed in English-language musicological and historical literature, no complete English translation of the work exists. Scholarly works by Joscelyn Godwin and others contain excerpts or discussions of the text, but the work remains untranslated in its entirety. Open Library records indicating 'eng' language for the 1673 edition are erroneous, as the original publication was in Latin.
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Step into the laboratory of the 17th century's most daring polymath to discover the first book ever dedicated entirely to the science of acoustics. Athanasius Kircher reveals how to engineer architecture that listens, build wind-driven musical machines, and harness the 'prodigious' power of sound to heal the human soul.
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