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Author Aspaas, Per Pippin, author.

Title Maximilian Hell (1720-92) and the ends of Jesuit science in Enlightenment Europe / Per Pippin Aspaas, László Kontler.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2020.

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Series Jesuit studies ; 27
Jesuit studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 27.
Summary The Viennese Jesuit court astronomer Maximilian Hell was a nodal figure in the eighteenth-century circulation of knowledge. He was already famous by the time of his celebrated 1769 expedition for the observation of the transit of Venus in northern Scandinavia. However, the 1773 suppression of his order forced Hell to develop ingenious strategies of accommodation to changing international and domestic circumstances. Through a study of his career in local, regional, imperial, and global contexts, this book sheds new light on the complex relationship between the Enlightenment, Catholicism, administrative and academic reform in the Habsburg monarchy, and the practices and ends of cultivating science in the Republic of Letters around the end of the first era of the Society of Jesus.
Note Print version record.
Subject Hell, Miksa, 1720-1792.
Jesuits -- Austria -- Vienna -- History -- 18th century.
Hell, Miksa, 1720-1792 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJhGXRHrCDDbYQhKkQryVC
Jesuits
Jesuit scientists -- Austria -- Vienna.
Education.
Religion and science.
Religion and Science
Scientifiques jésuites -- Autriche -- Vienne.
Religion et sciences.
SCIENCE / History
Jesuit scientists
Education
Religion and science
Austria -- Vienna https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJx4pkFCgX7gBJ7hFTB773
Chronological Term 1700-1799
Indexed Term History of science
Genre/Form History
Added Author Kontler, László, author.
Other Form: Print version: Maximilian Hell (1720-92) and the Ends of Jesuit Science in Enlightenment Europe. Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2020
ISBN 9789004416833 (electronic book)
9004416838
9789004361355 (print)
Standard No. 10.1163/9789004416833 doi
AU@ 000067304822

 
    
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