Like Pico della Mirandola and before him Kircher attempted to jutify the wisdom of pagan culture to the Catholic world.Volume 3 of Oedipus Egypticus deals exclusively with Kircher's attempts to translate Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Like Pico della Mirandola and Marsilo Ficino before him Kircher attempted to jutify the wisdom of pagan pre-Christian culture to the Catholic world. The third volume of Oedipus Egypticus deals exclusively with Kircher's attempts to translate Egyptian hieroglyphs.