Quotes from Athanasius Kircher's books, and about them
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler on Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae: “The kaleidoscope-collecting narrator aims "to reconstruct the museum assembled by the Jesuit Athanasius Kircher, author of Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae (1646) and inventor of the 'polydyptic theater.'"”
Foucault's Pendulum on Ars Magna Sciendi: “Father Kircher reread all the treatises on the combinatorial art...you see what he published in his Ars Magna Sciendi.”