Maximilian Hell (1720-92) and the Ends of Jesuit Science in Enlightenment Europe by Per Pippin Aspaas, László Kontler
Maximilian Hell (1720-92) and the Ends of Jesuit Science in Enlightenment Europe
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Per Pippin Aspaas, László Kontler
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Maximilian Hell (1720-92) and the Ends of Jesuit Science in Enlightenment Europe

Jesuit Studies

Per Pippin Aspaas, László Kontler

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The Viennese Jesuit court astronomer Maximilian Hell was a key 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 S...

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