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Description Why the Tower Could Not Reach the Moon, displayed in the book Turris Babel, Sive Archontologia Qua Primo Priscorum post diluvium hominum vita, mores rerumque gestarum magnitudo, Secundo Turris fabrica civitatumque exstructio, confusio linguarum, & inde gentium transmigrationis, cum principalium inde enatorum idiomatum historia, multiplici eruditione describuntur & explicantur. Amstelodami, Jansson-Waesberge 1679 by Athanasius Kircher's Principis Christiani archetypon politicum
Date 17th century
date QS:P,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
Source http://www.mjt.org/exhibits/bigbabel.html
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