Man Of Misconceptions : The Life Of An Eccentric In An Age Of Change (9781101597033) (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
in Neuss “to the tremendous joy of all.” After three days of rest, and another several hours of hiking on rutted, frozen roads, the young men finally walked wide-eyed through the gates of Cologne, a center of trade along the Rhine that had once rivaled Paris in size, sophistication, culture, and learning. A sovereign and heavily fortified “free city” within the Holy Roman Empire, Cologne laid claim to forty thousand citizens, an entire army of its own, one hundred fifty churches, and the world’s largest incomplete cathedral: building had begun almost four hundred years before Kircher’s arrival, but no work had been done for almost a century. Construction wouldn’t resume for another two hundred years. A couple of streets away from the site of this unfinished Gothic mountain, as many as fifteen hundred students took classes at the Jesuit college. Within this more urban setting, Kircher went on with his course in philosophy. Now he was the country boy in worn-out shoes, known or whispered to have barely escaped martyrdom at the hands of the Insane Bishop.
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