During this time, he restored the ancient Aeolian harp, invented the famous magic lantern and megaphone, and taught perspective to the painter Poussin. After his death, the Kircher Museum was established in Rome to house the vast amount of material and documents he left behind. This is one of the earliest public resource facilities in the world, along with the Ashmolean Museum in England. One of Kircher's most ambitious endeavors was the deciphering of Egyptian hieroglyphics. *Some of the terminology used in reference to the Kircher Museum is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…その間に古代楽器エオリアン・ハープを復元したほか,有名な幻灯機,拡声器などを発明,画家プッサンには遠近法を教授した。死後ローマに〈キルヒャー博物館〉が設置され,彼の残したおびただしい資料と文献は保管されることになったが,これはイギリスの〈アシュモリアン博物館〉と並ぶ世界最初期の公共資料施設である。 キルヒャーの最も壮大な試みの一つはエジプト聖刻文字(ヒエログリフ)の解読であった。… ※「キルヒャー博物館」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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