Re: Re: Re: VMs: Argentina...and Moretus

["jan" <hurychj@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Nick,  
  
  
=======  You wrote:  

>
>I think he was just trying to be impeccably polite. :-)

Exactly, he knew the letter was delivered and ignored.
 
>Kircher was definitely tricked beforehand, but probably not by the VMs: 
>does anyone recall what year he was fooled, and by whom? I seem to recall 
>an ornate mirror script being described on-list, but no scan of it ever 
>being posted - Kircher probably did destroy that one. :-)

As  per Marcio comment in this list:  
 ...  This link provides more information on the hoaxes Kircher
was victim of (there was more than one):
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/kircher.html

>
>BTW, has anyone been to Culver City to see "The World is Bound With Secret 
>Knots
>The Life and Works of Athanasius Kircher"? Could be real, cpuld be fake - 
>very hard to tell. :-o
>         http://www.mjt.org/exhibits/Knots.html

Well, I  have read somewhere he was quite a showman himself: during Queen  Christina visit in his museum,  he  showed her some plants that grew in  the beacon right before her eyaes ( I pressume it was some crystals looking like plants, but  he of course never said it  to her :-).

>Does anyone know the address? A ground-penetrating radar scan might help to 
>convince the owners that it's worth the effort. :-)

Well,  it it should be under  Clemetinum Univrsity complex, now owned by   Jesuit Order  - in their church there Horczicky himself is  buried. The rumor actually talks about some bricklayer who was call to put up the wall un derground. He was blindfolded so he did  not know the exact place but noticed  some boxes in the room he  had to wall-in. He of course thought it was some gold so when Jesuits left Prague, he was spending nights underground and still is looking for the treasure - knocking of his hammer can be heard still today . . . Needles to say, he could not find  the place since there is apaprently the whole a labyrinth of underground  corridors there (nothing  unusual  in old Prague).  Actually the  idea about documents   - rather than  gold   - was mine, it would explain why we cannot trace them  :-). The part about bricklayer of course could be true enough, Emperor Joseph II did  not give Jesuits enough time to pack up and the legend says they  believed they would!
 be soon back. 

Jan

 
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