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Scientist of the Day - Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz
Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, a Spanish-born cleric, was born May 23, 1606.
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A member of the Cistercian order, Lobkowitz spent his life in a variety of political and ecclesiastical roles, assisting Emperor Ferdinand III in the defense of Prague during the Thirty-Years war, and serving as bishop of Campagna and then Vigevano in Italy in his later years.
Lobkowitz gets notice here because he was one of a small number of 17th-century intellectuals, a group that would also include the Jesuits Athanasius Kircher and Gaspar Schott, who took all knowledge as their province, and wrote books--scores of books--on all manner of subjects, including theology, ethics, grammar, music, astronomy, geology, optics, and natural magic.
These eclectics were generally not original thinkers, but they knew everything, and they were widely respected in their day as lions of scholarship. Kircher is the most famous of these, and Schott is