Musical Sympathy and Occult Knowledge
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Kircher’s ‘Harmony of the Birth of the World’ represented in terms of a cosmic organ with six stops corresponding to the six days of creation. The Latin inscription under the keyboard reads: ‘Thus plays the wisdom of the everlasting God in the earthly orb’.
Author: Athanasius Kircher
Title: Musurgia universalis [The complete science of music] (Rome, 1650)
Shelfmark: D.4.22
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