Can anyone out there fill me in on what happened to the Athanasius Kircher Society website? It went down, then promised to be back up, and now seems permananently down . . . which is a tragedy, because it was one of the best wonderkammers on the web.
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I, too, have been mourning the site's apparent demise. Alas, I can't enlighten you because I don't know what's going on either.... But if I find out, you'll be the first to know. :)
Thanks, Jen. Vanderleun, I know their audience was small, but it was highly loyal, and I can't believe the cost of running it was that great (especially since its traffic was small!). . . I wonder if there just was some glitch in its curation. I really didn't "troll for images" there so much as refer my readers to their excellent articles, at least a dozen times over the past couple of years.