Arithmologia Sive De Abditis Numerorum Mysterijs Qua Origo Antiquitas Fabrica Numerorum
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First edition
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 extent bound up in mystery, and this was particularly true of
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