In his hilarious book Turris Babel (Amsterdam 1679), written after his bestseller Arca Noe… . … our all-time favorite polymath Athanasius Kircher proves very graphically why the construction of the Babel tower was impossible and had to be abandoned: . … if the tower had been raised up to the Moon it would have had … Continue reading Why the Babel Tower was impossible to build (Athanasius Kircher gets clever and cleverer)…