R.P. Athanasii Kircheri e Societate Jesu Iter extaticum cœleste, : quo mundi opificium, id est, cœlestis expansi, siderumq[ue] tam errantium, quàm fixorum natura, vires, proprietates, singulorumq[ue] compositio & structura, ab infimo telluris globo, usq[ue] ad ultima mundi confinia, per ficti raptus integumentum explorata, novâ hypothesi exponitur ad veritatem, interlocutoribus Cosmiele et Theodidacto

Title Variants

Alternative: Iter extaticum cœleste

Alternative: Reverendissimi Patris Athanasii Kircheri e Societate Jesu Iter extaticum cœleste

Uniform: Itinerarium exstaticum

By

Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680

Schott, Gaspar, 1608-1666

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Herbipoli, sumptibus Joh. Andr. & Wolffg. Jun. Endterorum hæredibus, Anno M. DC. LX. [1660]

Edition

Hac secundâ editione prælusionibus & scholiis illustratum; ac schematismis necessariis, qui deerant, exornatum; nec non à mendis, quæ in primam Romanam editione irrepserant, expurgatum, / ipso auctore annuente, a P. Gaspare Schotto Regiscuriano e Societate Jesu, olim in Panormitano Siciliæ, nunc in Herbipolitano Franconiæ gymnasio ejusdem Societatis Jesu matheseos professore. Accessit ejusdem auctoris Iter exstaticum terrestre, & Synopsis mundi s

Notes

First edition published under title: Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Iesu Itinerarium exstaticum. Rome, 1656-1657. 2 v.

Added engraved title page: Iter exstaticum Kircherianum, prælusionibus & scholijs illustratum, schematibusq[ue] exornatum à P. Gasp. Schotto, Societatis Jesu. 1660., signed: F. Sc. [=Fleischberger]

Signatures: )(-3)(⁴ ()(3 signed as ")(2") A-4T⁴ 4U² ()(1 verso, 3)(4 verso, 4U2 verso blank)

Plates numbered: Iconismus I.-XII.

Page 498 misnumb.: "998"; p. 543 misnumb.: "545"

Errata (p. [17-18], 3rd count)

Includes indexes.

Second section with half title: Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Jesu Iter extaticum II. qui & mundi subterranei prodromus dicitur; quo geocosmi opificium, sive terrestris globi structura, unà cum abditis in ea constitutis arcanioris naturæ reconditoriis, per ficti raptus integumentum exponitur ad veritatem. In III. dialogos distinctum, & hac secundâ editione à mendis, quæ in primam Romanam irrepserant, expurgatum. Accessit in fine Synopsis mundi subterranei ejusdem auctoris (p. [513]-689; corresponds to v.2 of the first edition, Rome, 1657)

Second section with some references to America.

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, | 3:41.

Grässe | 4:21.

Backer-Sommervogel | 4:1056 (no.14)

Backer-Sommervogel | 7:907 (Schot no.5)

Alden, J.E. European Americana, | 660/102.

Subjects

Astronomy , Geology , Natural history , Pre-Linnean works

Call Number

QB41 .K5 1660

Language

Latin

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.98328
LCCN: https://lccn.loc.gov/80490082