Diatribe de Progidiosis Crucibus information

Diatribe de progidiosis crucibus is a 1661 work by the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher. It was printed in Rome by Blasius Deversin and dedicated to Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria. A second edition of the work was published in Rome in 1666 and a German translation appeared in Gaspar Schott's Joco-seriorum naturae et artis (Würzburg, 1666).^[1]

Diatribe is Kircher's most succinct and explicit statement in favour of seeking rational causes for phenomena through an understanding of natural laws, derived from observation, rather than seeking miraculous explanations.^[2]^: 233–4 This continued the theme he had taken up in Scrutinium Physico-Medicum (1658)^[3] and pursued in greater detail in Mundus Subterraneus (1665).^[4]^: 154

^ Harold B. Lee Library (2003). Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680), Jesuit Scholar: An Exhibition of His Works in the Harold B. Lee Library Collections at Brigham Young University. Martino Publishing. p. 36. ISBN 978-1-57898-432-9.
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[Library2003-1] Harold B. Lee Library (2003). Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680), Jesuit Scholar: An Exhibition of His Works in the Harold B. Lee Library Collections at Brigham Young University. Martino Publishing. p. 36. ISBN 978-1-57898-432-9.

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