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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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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-379802020-06-17T07:40:31Z Maximilian Hell (1720–92) and the Ends of Jesuit Science in Enlightenment Europe Aspaas, Per Pippin Kontler, László History of science bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PD Science: general issues::PDX History of science 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 interested in eighteenth-century Central Europe and Scandinavia, in the production and circulation of knowledge in the Enlightenment, in enlightened absolutism, in Catholicism and the Society of Jesus in the eighteenth century, in the history of astronomy and related subjects, and the history of comparative linguistics and its ideological implications. 2020-05-15T17:29:36Z 2020-05-15T17:29:36Z 2019 book ONIX_20200515_9789004416833_125 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/37980 eng Jesuit Studies application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9789004416833_webready_content_text.pdf https://brill.com/abstract/title/36217 Brill Brill 10.1163/9789004416833 10.1163/9789004416833 af16fd4b-42a1-46ed-82e8-c5e880252026 Brill 27 490 open access
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