 Later in the 17th century, the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher in "Oedipus Aegyptiacus" (1652) used the tablet as a primary source for developing his translations of hieroglyphics, which are now known to be incorrect.His book was the source for the English physician and philosopher Sir Thomas Browne, who, in his discourse "The Garden of Cyrus" (1658) alludes to "the figures of Isis and Osyris, and the Tutelary spirits in the Bembine Table".Seventeenth century scholars of comparative religion such as Kircher and Browne attempted to reconcile the wisdom of antiquity with Christianity, the Bembine Tablet was interpreted as a vehicle for such syncretic thought; thus Browne proposes in his discourse