Arithmologia sive De abditis Numerorum mysterijs. qua origo, antiquitas & fabrica numerorum exponitur; abditae eorundem proprietates demonstrantur; Fontes superstitionum in amuletorum fabrica aperiuntur; denique post Cabalistarum, Arabum, Gnosticorum, aliorumque magicas impietates detectas, vera & licita numerorum mystica significatio ostenditur.
Rome: Ex Typographia Varesij (Varesius), 1665. First edition, rare, of Kircher’s treatise on numerology, the ‘hidden mysteries’ of the origins of numbers. “The Arithmologia, one of Kircher’s more curious works, is a veritable gold mine of curiosities: magic formulas, amulets, and symbolic matrices. For Kircher all knowledge was to some..... More
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