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Athanasius Kircher
12+ albums
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Athanasius Kircher (sometimes erroneously spelled Kirchner) was a 17th century German Jesuit scholar who published around 40 works, most notably in the fields of oriental studies, geology, and medicine. Kircher has been compared to fellow Jesuit Roger Boscovich and to Leonardo da Vinci for his enormous range of interests, and has been honoured with the title "master of a hundred arts".[2] Kircher was the most famous "decipherer" of hieroglyphs of his day, although most of his assumptions and "translations" in this field have since been disproved as nonsensical. However, he did make an early study of Egyptian hieroglyphs, correctly establishing the link between the ancient Egyptian language and the Coptic language, for which he has been considered the founder of Egyptology. He was also fascinated with Sinology, and wrote an encyclopedia of China, in which he noted the early presence of Nestorian Christians but also attempted to establish more tenuous links with Egypt and Christianity. Kircher's work with geology included studies of volcanos and fossils. One of the first people to observe microbes through a microscope, he was thus ahead of his time in proposing that the plague was caused by an infectious microorganism and in suggesting effective measures to prevent the spread of the disease. Kircher also displayed a keen interest in technology and mechanical inventions, and inventions attributed to him include a magnetic clock, various automatons and the first megaphone. The
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Tarantella Napoletana, Tono Hypodorico
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836Magia Phonotactica
707La Carpinese (Tarantella)
518Magnes sive de arte magnetica: Tarantella, Tono hypodorico
349Tarantella Napoletana
2210Modo hypodorico (Arr. for Chamber Ensemble)
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L'Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar: The Complete Alpha Recordings
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La Tarantella: Antidotum Tarantulae (Extraits de la bande originale du film "Tous les soleil
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