Maximilian Hell (1720-92) and the ends of Jesuit science in Enlightenment Europe /
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 or...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2020]
Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : BRILL, [2020] |
| Series: | Jesuit studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ;
v. 27 Jesuit studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 27 Jesuit studies (Leiden, Netherlands) v. 27 |
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