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By Athanasius Kircher
The 'Magnes' is also a landmark of horology, as noted in Kircher’s wikipedia entry: “Kircher also constructed a magnetic clock, the mechanism of which he explained in his Magnes (1641). The device had originally been invented by another Jesuit, Fr. Linus of Liege, and was described b…
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