Maximilian Hell (1720-92) and the Ends of Jesuit Science in Enlightenment Europe
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. Readership: Anyone...
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Brill
2019
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