Incluye referencias bibligoráficas (p. 421-445) e índice.

Athanasius Kircher and his world -- Baroque imaginary : the world of Athanasius Kircher, S.J. (1602-80) -- Kircher's Rome : a way to understand the Celeberrimus Museum Kircherianum -- Reveries in time of plague : Kircher and the plague epidemic of 1656 -- Kircher and his critics : censorial practice and pragmatic disregard in the Society of Jesus -- Quasi-optical palingenesis : the circulation of portraits and the image of Kircher -- Kircher, Peiresc, and the foundation of Coptic studies, or, The quest for Barachias Nephi -- Trees, some amulets, and the seventy-two names of God : Kircher reveals the Kabbalah -- Kircher's chronology -- Athanasius Kircher, Giordano Bruno, and the panspermia of the infinite universe -- Father Athanasius on the isthmus of a middle state : understanding Kircher's paleontology -- The angel and the compass : Athanasius Kircher's geographical project -- Magnetic language : Athanasius Kircher and communication -- Publishing the polygraphy : manuscript, instrument, and print in the work of Athanasius Kircher -- Private and public knowledge : Kircher, esotericism and the republic of letters -- Baroque science between the old world and the new : Father Kircher and his fellow Jesuit, Valentin Stansel (1621-1705) -- A Jesuit's books in the new world : Athanasius Kircher and his American readers -- True lies : Kircher's China illustrata and the life story of a Mexican mystic -- Athanasius Kircher's China illustrata (1667) : an apologia pro sua vita -- The afterlife of a polymath -- Understanding Kircher in context.