Per Pippin Aspaas, "Maximilian Hell (172092) and the Ends of Jesuit Science in Enlightenment Europe "
English | ISBN: 9004361359 | 2019 | 490 pages | PDF | 20 MB
English | ISBN: 9004361359 | 2019 | 490 pages | PDF | 20 MB
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.