Turris Babel, sive archontologia qua primo priscorum post diluvium hominum vita, mores rerumque gestarum magnitudo, secundo turris fabrica civitatumque extructio, confusio linguarum, et inde gentium transmigrationis ... describuntur et explicantur / [Athanasius Kircher].

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Turris Babel, sive archontologia qua primo priscorum post diluvium hominum vita, mores rerumque gestarum magnitudo, secundo turris fabrica civitatumque extructio, confusio linguarum, et inde gentium transmigrationis ... describuntur et explicantur / [Athanasius Kircher].