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1. (1679)
EN 1679, THE JESUIT SCHOLAR AND
POLYGRAPH - "THE MAN WHO KNEW
EVERYTHING" - ATHANASIUS KIRCHER (1602-
1680), published in Amsterdam his study of
the Tower of Babel. The work meets all the
topics demanded an encyclopedic genius
Kircher in Baroque: a strong and detailed
descriptive character, ability to synthesize
and harmonize authorities -the heart of the
matter is San Augustine and some scientific
tone in the analysis of languages and, above
all, his theories about the native language or
Adamic.
The task was not easy when you consider he
had to combine their own theories about the
Oriental languages, which had already
charted both in China Illustrata ( China
shown) , as in the Œdipus
Ægypciacus ( Egyptian Oedipus ), combine
them with the authority of the sources of the

2. Fathers of the Church of Hippo -Agustín at
all-, and create a relatively original work -
the originality as such is a modern- tomes
problem before the likes ofPhaleg seu
Dispersione gentium et terrarum facta in
ædificatione turris Babel ( Phaleg or
dispersion of peoples and countries
occurred in the building of the Tower of
Babel ) that Samuel Bochart was published
in 1651 .
Anyway, we'll leave for another day the
complex and tortuous path through the idea
of the Tower of Babel, the confusion of
languages and the identification of the
original language during the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries in Europe. Today I
wanted to go up to your enjoyment precious
and detailed engravings of the work of
Kircher. Find the bottom of each image a
description of it, in some I've entertained in
Google Books looking for a brief
description-not decimonónicos texts me
wonder why, but I'm fascinated

3. encyclopedias and studies XIX, plagued
occasions fantasy, errors and so on. I hope
you enjoy the images and links that I added
below.

5. Cover of the work of Kircher.
Corografía of Mount Ararat.

7. Kircher demonstration of how out of gravity preclude the Tower of Babel
came to the lunar sky. Note the Kircher own:
Divisimus altitudinem Lunam Turris ad
usque in 5 parts; Quatrum unaquæque
continet 50 semidiameters globi terreni, 2
iuxta semidiameters distantiam LUNAE a
terre next 52 semidiametrum geocosmi
center; unde luculententer concluditur
globum terrestrem Turris weigh
extracentrum motum fuisse both quantu
spatio inter est intercapedo O. and N.
Videbis pariter balloon terrae pondus Turris
ML æquilibratum multum excessisse
pondus globi terræ.

9. After the demonstration a rough picture of the Tower of Babel to "actual
size".

11. Many have believed that the tower was in
Babylon Belo, whose description has given
us Herodotus was the same as that of Babel,
that tells us Moses.The Herodotus was
composed of eight towers, one above the
other, which from the first were decreasing
in thickness up to the second season.The
first tower had a stadium or one hundred
twenty five paces long foursquare or width
and length. Herodotus does not tell us the
extent of the other towers. At the top of the
latter was the temple of Belo. But we have
no evidence that this tower is that Noah's
sons began, not ended.
(Augustine Calmet, History of Old and New Testament and the Jews ,
Madrid: The press of administration Real Discretion, 1806, p 43.)

12. View of the tower, city and walls of Babylon.

13. The arts were practiced in Assyria and
Babylonia since ancient times. Diodorus
speaks of animal figures in relief …… ;and
painted so that seemed alive. Amid he
looked to the Queen who tamed a lion. Belo
statues of Nino and Semíramis were bronze.

14. Joaquín Bastús, Historical Dictionary Encyclopedic , Barcelona:
The press of Rock Street Libreteria, 1833, t. II, p. 353 col. B.
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon Queen Semiramis:
its foundation is attributed to Semiramis,
Cyrus or Nebuchadnezzar; and it is known
that the latter king built for his wife with the
spoils from the conquest of Judea. He has
not missed who believed the existence of

15. these fabulous gardens; but examining the
texts of Quintus Curtius, Strabo or
Diodorus, though these texts are not very
clear, it follows that they were a colossal,
ingeniously conceived work; but by no
means impossible, or more company factory
pyramids of Egypt.

17. The citadel of Semiramis:
Ephesus was the pentacle of the moon,
which was the Temple of Diana Panthea,
built in the likeness of the universe. There
was a dome that crowned a cross, with a
square gallery and a circular enclosure. In
the middle of the square it rose a truncated
pyramid, subre which had a carriage with
four horses harnessed to form a cross. The
Pyramids were the Hermes or Mercury
Pentacle.The Olympic Jupiter was the
pentacle of that god.The walls of Babylon
and the citadel of Semiramis were Pentacles
Mars. Finally, the Temple of Solomon-the
universal and absolute pentacle intended to
replace the others was, for the Gentile
world, the terrible Pentacle of Saturn.
Eliphas Levi, History of Magic: with a clear and precise statement of
its procedures, rites and mysteries , Editorial Kier, 1988, p. 107

18. Garden of Semiramis.

20. Egyptian funerary pyramid, in the backgroundthe Nile with the city of
Memphis and Heliopolis.
Elephantine temple monolith:
The Egyptians were excellent diamond
polishers, and this skill took great match for
solidly lift these giant monuments that
decorate the deserts of the ancient kingdom
of the Pharaohs, and that seem to defy the
wrath of ages and destructive tendencies of

21. man; and history remembers that King
Amatis did draw near the elephantine city a
monolith temple thirty feet long, twenty
wide and twelve lift, which was carved in the
granite rock red abundant in the low Egypt.
Rafael Hernández Gutiérrez, Religion and Fine Arts , Caracas: Printing
the future, 1867, 16.

23. Comparison of this the following of the huge superiority of the
Egyptians about the Greeks in the construction of mazes and image.

27. The Colossus of Rhodes.
View of the ruins of the Tower of Babel.