Book ID: CBB795507049

Maximilian Hell (1720–92) and the Ends of Jesuit Science in Enlightenment Europe (2019)

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Aspaas, Per Pippin (Author)


Brill


Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 490
Language: English

The Viennese Jesuit astronomer Maximilian Hell was a nodal figure in the eighteenth-century circulation of knowledge. This study of his career sheds light on the Enlightenment, Catholicism, reform in the Habsburg monarchy, and the cultivation of science in the Republic of Letters.

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Authors & Contributors
Casini, Paolo
Veres, Madalina Valeria
Bevilacqua, Alexander
Manning, Patrick
Ziller Camenietzki, Carlos
Young, Francis
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Journal of Jesuit Studies
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
History of Religions
British Journal for the History of Science
Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Publishers
Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura
University of Connecticut
École Française de Rome
Carocci Editore
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Ashgate
Concepts
Science and religion
Roman Catholicism
Republic of Letters
Historiography
Science and culture
Science and society
People
Vallisneri, Antonio
Volta, Alessandro
Spallanzani, Lazzaro
Roberti, Johannes
Morgagni, Giovanni Battista
Liesganig, Joseph
Time Periods
18th century
Enlightenment
17th century
16th century
19th century
Early modern
Places
Italy
Vienna (Austria)
Europe
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
England
Florence (Italy)
Institutions
Habsburg, House of
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
Theosophical Society
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