A selection of images from works by and related to Athanasius Kircher held in the Special Collections and University Archives of Stanford University Libraries. Selection and captions by Michael John Gorman, 2001.
- Portrait of Kircher at 76
- How to display a flying dragon
- Kircher seated on a crocodile
- The tower of Babel could not have reached the moon
- World systems
- Dedication to Ferdinand III
- Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae
- Hieroglyphic obelisk erected to honour Honoratus Ioannis
- The conversion of St. Eustace
- Kircher’s museum at the Collegio Romano
- Amber-encased lizard
- The magic lantern
- List of Kircher’s publications
- Frontispiece, from Latium
- The Nile mosaic
- Filippo Bonanni, Musaeum Kircherianum
- Idols from the “Indies”
- Portrait of Kircher
- Ars Magnesia
- Magnes, sive De Arte Magnetica
- The heliocentric cosmos
- Iter Exstaticum
- The sunflower clock
- Instrument for measuring magnetic inclination
- Table of magnetic inclination measurements
- Table of magnetic declination measurements
- The world is bound in secret knots
- 1638 Eruption of Vesuvius
- Title page of Mundus Subterraneus
- System of subterranean fires
- System of springs, rivers and seas
- The origin of hot and cold springs
- Geometrical mineral formations
- Fossils of two fish
- Stone with image of an owl
- Image of Christ found in a stone
- A “toad stone”
- Subterranean “matrices of metals”
- A mining ventilator
- Salomon de Blauenstein, Interpellatio Brevis …
- “False alchemist’s” diagrams
- Spagyrical furnace
- Frontispiece of Arithmologia
- The twelve astrological house
- The Wheel of Life and Death
- Amulets
- Amulets
- The Egyptian cosmic system
- Post-Vesuvius crosses
- Egyptian speaking statu
- Isis and Osiris
- Dog-headed Egyptian water clock
- Multimammary goddess
- The altar of the gods
- Copiously vomiting two-headed imperial eagle
- A magnetic Habsburg eagle
- Universal horoscope of the Society of Jesus
- Magnetic anemoscope in Malt
- Vomiting fountain
- The catoptric theater
- The legendary sphere of Archimedes
- Magnetic oracle
- Magnetic cryptological machine
- Hydraulic organ
- Musurgical ark
- Todini’s claviorganum
- Aeolian harp
- Tarantella with dancing tarantulas
- Five vibrating goblets
- Harmony of the birth of the world
- Vitruvian theater
- Speaking tubes connected to statues
- The horn of Alexander the Great
- Acoustic devices
- Hydraulic organ
- Orpheus tuning his lyre
- Musical cryptography
- The sympathies between the microcosm and megacosm
- Tarantula and tarantella
- Removing the cobra’s “snakestone”
- Ferdinand III
- Dictionary of Kircher’s universal language
- Translating Kircher’s universal language into the vernaculars
- Verbs in Kircher’s universal language
- The Lullist combinatory system
- Combinations of the nine universal symbols
- The new steganography
- Kircher’s “new steganography”
- The steganographic ark
- The Tower of Babel
- Harpocrates
- Schall and Ricci holding a map of China
- The Sino-Syriac Monument
- Tartar women and child
- Tibetans worshipping idols
- Principal Chinese deities
- The flying turtles of Henan
- Origins of the Chinese characters
- Origins of the Chinese characters
- Local Chinese costumes
- The “polomie” fruit
- Tea bush
- The pyramids of Egypt
- The Coptic alphabet
- Lingua Aegyptiaca Restituta
- Relocation of the Vatican obelisk
- Obeliscus Pamphilius
- Bernini’s obelisk of the Minerva
- Wrapping of a mummy
- Primeval forms of the Egyptian alphabet
- Derivation of the letter ‘M’
- Translation of the Minervan obelisk
- The god Typhon
- The Egyptian trinity
- The Japanese deity Amida
- Christian interpretation of the Kabbalah
- Kabbalistic speculations on the letter alef
- The mythical founding of Mexico City
- A Mexican temple
- Noah offering a sacrifice
- The most ancient alphabets of the world
- A list of authorities
- Map of ancient Egypt
- Egyptian antiquities from Camopus
- Oedipus solving the riddle of the sphinx
- Letter
- Nature as artist
- The subterranean origin of tornadoes
- The flood
- The emperor of China
- Philosophical tree
- Omnia in uno sunt…
- [letter]
- Dendrites Hetruriae.
- Engraving of a Monstrous Tartar, sent to Kircher in 1664.