Turris Babel, the Glossary
Turris Babel (The Tower of Babel) was a 1679 work by the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher.[1]
Table of Contents
20 relations: Adamic language, Arca Noë, Athanasius Kircher, Book of Genesis, Celestial sphere, Coenraet Decker, Colossus of Rhodes, Egyptian pyramids, Genesis flood narrative, Gerard de Lairesse, Hebrew language, Human skin color, Idolatry, Jesuits, Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, Lievin Cruyl, Linguistics, Nimrod, Noah, Tower of Babel.
- 1679 books
- 1679 in science
- Athanasius Kircher
- Historicity of the Bible
- Obsolete scientific theories
- Tower of Babel
- Works about language
Adamic language
The Adamic language, according to Jewish tradition (as recorded in the midrashim) and some Christians, is the language spoken by Adam (and possibly Eve) in the Garden of Eden. Turris Babel and Adamic language are Obsolete scientific theories.
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Arca Noë
Arca Noë ("Noah's Ark") is a book published in 1675 by the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher. Turris Babel and Arca Noë are Athanasius Kircher, Historicity of the Bible and Obsolete scientific theories.
Athanasius Kircher
Athanasius Kircher (2 May 1602 – 27 November 1680) was a German Jesuit scholar and polymath who published around 40 major works of comparative religion, geology, and medicine.
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Book of Genesis
The Book of Genesis (from Greek; בְּרֵאשִׁית|Bərēʾšīṯ|In beginning; Liber Genesis) is the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament.
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Celestial sphere
In astronomy and navigation, the celestial sphere is an abstract sphere that has an arbitrarily large radius and is concentric to Earth.
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Coenraet Decker
Coenraet Decker (1650 in Amsterdam – 1685 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch Golden Age engraver.
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Colossus of Rhodes
The Colossus of Rhodes (ho Kolossòs Rhódios; Kolossós tes Rhódou) was a statue of the Greek sun god Helios, erected in the city of Rhodes, on the Greek island of the same name, by Chares of Lindos in 280 BC.
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Egyptian pyramids
The Egyptian pyramids are ancient masonry structures located in Egypt.
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Genesis flood narrative
The Genesis flood narrative (chapters 6–9 of the Book of Genesis) is a Hebrew flood myth.
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Gerard de Lairesse
Gerard or Gérard (de) Lairesse (11 September 1641 – June 1711) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and art theorist.
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Hebrew language
Hebrew (ʿÎbrit) is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family.
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Human skin color
Human skin color ranges from the darkest brown to the lightest hues.
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Idolatry
Idolatry is the worship of a cult image or "idol" as though it were a deity.
Jesuits
The Society of Jesus (Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits (Iesuitae), is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome.
Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor
Leopold I (Leopold Ignaz Joseph Balthasar Franz Felician; I.; 9 June 1640 – 5 May 1705) was Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary, Croatia, and Bohemia.
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Lievin Cruyl
Lievin Cruyl or Lieven Cruyl (name variations: Levin Cruijl, Lievin Cruijl, Levin Cruyl, Livinus Cruylius, Cruylius Livinus) (5 September 1634 – before 1720) was a Flemish priest and a draughtsman and etcher of landscapes, seascapes, and architectural views.
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Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of language.
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Nimrod
Nimrod (ܢܡܪܘܕ; Numrūd) is a biblical figure mentioned in the Book of Genesis and Books of Chronicles.
Noah
Noah appears as the last of the Antediluvian patriarchs in the traditions of Abrahamic religions.
Tower of Babel
The Tower of Babel is an origin myth and parable in the Book of Genesis meant to explain why the world's peoples speak different languages.
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See also
1679 books
- 1679 in literature
- Beaumont and Fletcher folios
- Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture
- Turris Babel
1679 in science
Athanasius Kircher
- A Man of Misconceptions
- Abacus Harmonicus
- Arca Noë
- Arithmologia
- Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae
- Ars Magnesia
- Athanasius Kircher
- Cat organ
- China Illustrata
- Diatribe de Progidiosis Crucibus
- Historia Eustachio Mariana
- Itinerarium exstaticum
- Kircher (crater)
- Kircherian Museum
- Latium (1669)
- Lingua Aegyptiaca Restituta
- Magnes sive de Arte Magnetica
- Mundus Subterraneus
- Musurgia Universalis
- Obeliscus Pamphilius
- Oedipus Aegyptiacus
- Organum Mathematicum
- Pantometrum Kircherianum
- Phonurgia Nova
- Polygraphia Nova
- Prodromus Coptus
- Scrutinium Physico-Medicum
- Specula Melitensis Encyclica
- Turris Babel
Historicity of the Bible
- Abraham in History and Tradition
- Arca Noë
- Caesar's Messiah
- Christ myth theory
- Denial of the virgin birth of Jesus
- Historical books
- Historical reliability of the Acts of the Apostles
- Historical reliability of the Gospels
- Historicity and origin of the Resurrection of Jesus
- Historicity of Jesus
- Historicity of the Bible
- History according to the Catholic Church
- Jesus and history
- Sacred history
- The Bible in History
- The Denial of the Historicity of Jesus in Past and Present
- The Historicity of the Patriarchal Narratives
- Turris Babel
- Vaticinium ex eventu
- What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It?
Obsolete scientific theories
- Adamic language
- Ancient near eastern cosmology
- Animal magnetism
- Antiperistasis
- Arca Noë
- Azoic hypothesis
- Balance of nature
- Chiemgau impact hypothesis
- Cosmic age problem
- Dirac large numbers hypothesis
- Electromagnetic theories of consciousness
- Firmament
- Francien language
- Geohumoral theory
- Global cooling
- History of astrology
- History of the center of the Universe
- History of the extraterrestrial life debate
- Hollow Earth
- Hollow Moon
- Homoeomeria (philosophy)
- Imago Universi
- Island of California
- Japhetic theory
- List of discredited substances
- Lubbock Subpluvial
- Martian canals
- Mechanical explanations of gravitation
- Musurgia Universalis
- Obsolete models of DNA structure
- Open Polar Sea
- Panbabylonism
- Physiognomy
- Plutonism
- Polflucht
- RYB color model
- Rain follows the plow
- Royal Commission on Animal Magnetism
- Scotophobin
- Scrutinium Physico-Medicum
- Superseded theories in science
- Superstition in India
- Tetranucleotide hypothesis
- Thomsen–Berthelot principle
- Turris Babel
- Vitalism
Tower of Babel
- Bible Ki Kahaniyan
- Borsippa
- Der Thurm zu Babel
- Etemenanki
- Forge of Empires
- Illusion of Gaia
- Jared (founder of Jaredites)
- Joktan
- Mystery Tower
- Synopsis Universae Philologiae
- That Hideous Strength
- The Bible: In the Beginning...
- The City Coat of Arms
- Tower of Babel
- Turris Babel
- Valley of Nimrod
Works about language
- Directorate of Language Planning and Implementation
- Ibis trilogy
- Snow Crash
- Substitute Teacher (Key & Peele)
- The Yield
- Turris Babel