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Oedipus Aegyptiacus
Frontispiece to Kircher's Oedipus Aegyptiacus; the Sphinx, confronted by Oedipus/Kircher's learning, admits he has solved her riddle.
Author
Athanasius Kircher
Original title
Oedipus Aegyptiacus: hoc est, Universalis hieroglyphicæ veterum doctrinæ temporum iniuria abolitæ instauratio
Language
Latin
Genre
Egyptology
Publisher
Vitale Mascardi
Publication date
1652–1654
Publication place
Italy
Kircher's fanciful method of translation is displayed in this attempt to produce a panegyric to his patron Ferdinand III in Egyptian. In Kircher's reading, the Eye of Horus and a glyph depicting a chessboard (the syllable mn) are interpreted as "instrument of divine providence, eye of the political universe". (divinae providentiae instrumentum, politici Universi oculus)
Oedipus Aegyptiacus is Athanasius Kircher's supreme work of Egyptology.
The three full folio tomes of ornate illustrations and diagrams were published in Rome over the period 1652–54. Kircher cited as his sources Chaldean astrology, Hebrew kabbalah, Greek mythology, Pythagorean mathematics, Arabian alchemy and Latin philology.
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