Artist: The Reverend Athanasius Kircher Sj
Date: 1678
Museum: The Royal Society (London, United Kingdom)
Technique: Paper
Printed portrait of Athanasius Kircher placed in opening of his Mundus Subterraneus. The Jesuit Athanasius Kircher travelled to the Mediterranean in the 1630s, experiencing an earthquake and viewing Stromboli and Etna. He explored the crater of Vesuvius and his experiences fed into his great book of natural philosophy: Mundus Subterraneus first published in 1665.
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