Maximilian Hell (1720–92) and the Ends of Jesuit Science in Enlightenment Europe

ISBN: 9789004361355 出版年：2019 页码：489 Per Pippin Aspaas Laszlo Kontler Brill

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.