Editing Athanasius Kircher (section)

==In popular culture==
Kircher's life and research are central to the plot of [[James Rollins|James Rollin's]] 2015 novel ''The Bone Labyrinth''.

He is also mentioned in ''[[The Book of Life (Harkness novel)|The Book of Life]]'', the third book in the All Souls Trilogy by [[Deborah Harkness]].

He further appears in two separate episodes in [[Daniel Kehlmann|Daniel Kehlmann's]] novel ''[[Tyll (novel)|Tyll]]'' (2017).

The permanent exhibition ''The World Is Bound with Secret Knots'' at the [[Museum of Jurassic Technology]] is based on the life and work of Kircher and uses elaborate 3D technology to highlight the magical quality of many of his ideas and images.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mjt.org/exhibits/kircher/Knots.html|title=The World is Bound With Secret Knots|website=Museum of Jurassic Technology|access-date=May 13, 2020}}</ref>

He is also a character (though largely off-stage, he is often mentioned by other characters) in the "[[Ring of Fire (series)|Ring of Fire]]" alternate history series (published by Baen). In it, he was sent back to Germany in the early 1630s, where he became the unofficial pastor of the Catholic church in the temporally transplanted town of Grantville, Thuringia-Franconia.

Kircher features as a favourite author of [[Benedykt Chmielowski|Father Chmielowski]] in [[Olga Tokarczuk]]'s ''[[The Books of Jacob]]''.