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

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.

About the author

Per Pippin Aspaas, PhD, with a thesis on Maximilian Hell (2012), is senior academic librarian at UiT The Arctic University of Norway (Tromsø). With a background in classical philology as well as the history of science, he has published on various branches of early modern science and the uses of neo-Latin.
László Kontler, PhD (1996), is professor of history at Central European University (Budapest/Vienna). He has published on intellectual history, the history of political thought, translation and reception, and scientific knowledge production, including Translations, Histories, Enlightenments: William Robertson in Germany, 1760-1795 (Palgrave, 2014).

Product details

• Authors: Per Pippin Aspaas, László Kontler
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.12.2019
• EAN: 9789004361355
• ISBN: 978-90-04-36135-5
• No. of pages: 490
• Weight: 887 g
• Series: Jesuit Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918