Maximilian Hell 1720 92 And The Ends Of Jesuit Science In Enlightenment Europe

Author : Per Pippin Aspaas
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004416838
Total Pages : 489 pages
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Download or read book Maximilian Hell (1720–92) and the Ends of Jesuit Science in Enlightenment Europe written by Per Pippin Aspaas and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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.

Author : Per Pippin Aspaas
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ISBN 13 : 9789004361355
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Maximilian Hell (1720-92) and the Ends of Jesuit Science in Enlightenment Europe written by Per Pippin Aspaas and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004499628
Total Pages : 440 pages
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Download or read book The State of Nature: Histories of an Idea written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-13 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining intellectual history with current concerns, this volume brings together fourteen essays on the past, present and possible future applications of the legal fiction known as the state of nature.

Author : Agustin UDIAS
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401703493
Total Pages : 396 pages
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Download or read book Searching the Heavens and the Earth written by Agustin UDIAS and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesuits established a large number of astronomical, geophysical and meteorological observatories during the 17th and 18th centuries and again during the 19th and 20th centuries throughout the world. The history of these observatories has never been published in a complete form. Many early European astronomical observatories were established in Jesuit colleges. During the 17th and 18th centuries Jesuits were the first western scientists to enter into contact with China and India. It was through them that western astronomy was first introduced in these countries. They made early astronomical observations in India and China and they directed for 150 years the Imperial Observatory of Beijing. In the 19th and 20th centuries a new set of observatories were established. Besides astronomy these now included meteorology and geophysics. Jesuits established some of the earliest observatories in Africa, South America and the Far East. Jesuit observatories constitute an often forgotten chapter of the history of these sciences.

Author : Lord Henry Home Kames
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sketches of the History of Man written by Lord Henry Home Kames and published by . This book was released on 1779 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrew Goss
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000404854
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Science and Empire written by Andrew Goss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this volume is the history of imperial science between 1600 and 1960, although some essays reach back prior to 1600 and the section about decolonization includes post-1960 material. Each contributed chapter, written by an expert in the field, provides an analytical review essay of the field, while also providing an overview of the topic. There is now a rich literature developed by historians of science as well as scholars of empire demonstrating the numerous ways science and empire grew together, especially between 1600 and 1960.

Author : Maria Mitchell
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
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Download or read book Maria Mitchell written by Maria Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Borbala Zsuzsanna Török
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1805395548
Total Pages : 286 pages
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Download or read book The Science of State Power in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1790-1880 written by Borbala Zsuzsanna Török and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2024-06 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The formation of modern European states during the long 19th century was a complicated process, challenged by the integration of widely different territories and populations. The Science of State Power in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1790-1880 builds on recent research to investigate the history of statistics as an overlooked part of the sciences of the state in Habsburg legal education as well as within the broader public sphere. By exploring the practices and social spaces of statistics, author Borbála Zsuzsanna Török uncovers its central role in imagining the composite Habsburg Monarchy as a modern and unified administrative space.

Author : James Joseph Walsh
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Total Pages : 578 pages
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Download or read book The Popes and Science written by James Joseph Walsh and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Béla Mihalik
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004697683
Total Pages : 137 pages
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Download or read book The Ever-Reviving Phoenix written by Béla Mihalik and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-04-25 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than four and a half centuries, the Jesuits in Hungary were forced to repeatedly recommence their activities due to wars, uprisings, and political conflicts. The Society of Jesus first settled in Hungary in 1561 during the period of Ottoman conquest. Despite their difficulties in a war-torn country, a network of Jesuit colleges was established as part of the Austrian Province, and the eighteenth century was a period of cultural and scientific prosperity for the Jesuits in Hungary. The Suppression of 1773, however, abruptly suspended this tradition for eighty years. After they resettled in Hungary in 1853, the Jesuits searched for new ways of apostolic work. The independent Hungarian Jesuit Province was established in 1909. The totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century posed fresh challenges. During the Communist period, the Hungarian Jesuit Province was forced to split up into two sections. The Jesuits in exile and those who remained in Hungary were reunited in 1990.