John Glassie is a former contributing editor at The New York Times Magazine and the author of A Man of Misconceptions: The Life of an Eccentric in an Age of Change (Riverhead Books, 2012). He’s based in Brooklyn, New York.
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The Renaissance Man Who Got It All Wrong
In A Man of Misconceptions, John Glassie writes of the priest-scientist Athanasius Kircher.