1. Athanasius Kircher

John Edward Fletcher. A Study of the Life and Works of Athanasius Kircher, “Germanus incredibilis”: With a Selection of His Unpublished Correspondence and an Annotated Translation of His Autobiography. Ed. Elizabeth Fletcher. Trans. John Edward Fletcher. Aries Book Series: Texts and Studies in Western Esotericism 12. Leiden: Brill, 2011. xxxiv + 608 pp. $251. ISBN: 978–90–04–20712–7.

Renaissance Quarterly ◽

10.1086/669390 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 65 (4) ◽

pp. 1234-1235

Author(s):

Paula Findlen

Keyword(s):

Book Series ◽

Athanasius Kircher ◽

Western Esotericism ◽

Annotated Translation ◽

Selection Of

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Athanasius Kircher and his ‘Musurgia universalis’ (1650)

Musicology Australia ◽

10.1080/08145857.1982.10415936 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 73-83

Author(s):

John Fletcher

Keyword(s):

Athanasius Kircher

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Idea of Artificial Intelligence

Studia Humana ◽

10.2478/sh-2020-0027 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (3-4) ◽

pp. 37-65

Author(s):

Kazimierz Trzęsicki

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Artificial Intelligence ◽

New Period ◽

Substantial Progress ◽

The New Period ◽

Athanasius Kircher

AbstractArtificial Intelligence, both as a hope of making substantial progress, and a fear of the unknown and unimaginable, has its roots in human dreams. These dreams are materialized by means of rational intellectual efforts. We see the beginnings of such a process in Lullus’s fancies. Many scholars and enthusiasts participated in the development of Lullus’s art, ars combinatoria. Amongst them, Athanasius Kircher distinguished himself. Gottfried Leibniz ended the period in which the idea of artificial intelligence was shaped, and started the new period, in which artificial intelligence could be considered part of science, by today’s standards.

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