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
Young, Francis
Stolzenberg, Daniel
Concepts
Science and religion
Roman Catholicism
Republic of Letters
Science and society
Historiography
Science and culture
Time Periods
18th century
Enlightenment
17th century
16th century
Early modern
19th century
Places
Italy
Vienna (Austria)
Spain
Europe
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
England
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
Habsburg, House of
Museo del Collegio Romano
Theosophical Society
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