The Ecstatic Journey
Itinerarium Exstaticum
First Translation
No prior complete English translation of this text has been found.
Extensive searches across scholarly catalogs, academic databases (OpenAlex), and library repositories have yielded no evidence of a complete or partial English translation of Athanasius Kircher's 'Itinerarium Exstaticum' (1656). While Kircher's work is frequently cited in academic literature and excerpts appear in thematic sourcebooks (such as those by Joscelyn Godwin), no dedicated English translation of the text exists. The work remains accessible to scholars primarily in its original Latin or the 1660 revised edition.
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Cosmology & AstronomyNatural Philosophy & ScienceMysticismChristian TheologyThe Music of the Spheres
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Step into a 17th-century cosmic odyssey where the 'Master of a Hundred Arts,' Athanasius Kircher, shatters the ancient crystalline spheres of the heavens. Guided by an angel, readers embark on a 'fictional rapture' across a liquid universe to witness boiling solar oceans, the silver mountains of Mercury, and the internal fires of a living Earth. This work asks: How can the latest telescopic discoveries harmonize with the divine architecture of the Creator?
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