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.
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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.
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Very Good with no dust jacket; Miniscule amount of rubbing, bottom of covers. 9004361359. Binding tight, all pages clean. A nice copy.; Jesuit Studies: Modernity through the Prism of Jesuit History; Vol. 27; Color & Sepia Illustrations; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 477 pages.
