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Athanasius Kircher
5. Peter Pais on fountains that
cannot be measured
As reported by Kircher, Pais says he twice tried the depth of the second
fountain and could find no bottom. The fount was impossible to explore (inexplorabilis),
and had no bottom (fundum) they could find. So if Coleridge read this
passage, these
fountains would definitely be "measureless to man."
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fundum nullum invenimus..denuo rem tentavimus, sed nec sic fundum tenere
potuimus--Kircher, I, 58. |
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