Kircher

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Chronology," says Mr. Grafton, "became a synonym in the age of reason for mindless pedantry and foolish efforts to solve insoluble problems. The very name of the discipline seemed, and seems, to demand the adjective 'mere.'" And Kircher's "magnetic philosophy" -- like his interpretations of Egyptian hieroglyphics as the repositories of profound scientific and philosophical wisdom of the ancients -- sounded like hocus-pocus.


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