Blar i forfatter "Kontler, László"
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Before and After 1773 : Central European Jesuits, the Politics of Language and Discourses of Identity in the Late Eighteenth Century Habsburg Monarchy Habsburg Monarchy
Kontler, László; Aspaas, Per Pippin (Peer reviewed; Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2015-07) -
Maximilian Hell (1720–92) and the Ends of Jesuit Science in Enlightenment Europe
Aspaas, Per Pippin; Kontler, László (Book; Bok, 2020)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 ...