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Book Review: Maximilian Hell (1720–92) and the Ends of Jesuit Science in Enlightenment Europe

Book Review: Maximilian Hell (1720–92) and the Ends of Jesuit Science in Enlightenment Europe sIn the past years, Enlightenment scholarship has witnessed a growing interest in reshaping the traditionally internalist perspective of the history of science. Due to the efforts made in this field, the claim that the rethought research principles apply both internal and external justifications appears to have become a shared principle for new investigations. With their volume, Per Pippin Aspaas and László Kontler join this ongoing debate by emphasizing the primacy of the externalist scope in exploring the social space of the knowledge cultures of the Enlightenment. Thus, the book focuses on the social elements of knowledge production and attempts to build a framework in which the changes in social and cultural space resonate with the way the Enlightenment is perceived. The protagonist of the book is the prominent Jesuit court astronomer Maximilian Hell, a distinguished member of the eighteenth-century respublica astronomica and the leader of the Viennese Observatory. By delineating the cultural initiatives and personal loyalties (the republic of letters, the Habsburg dynasty, the Jesuit Order, and Hungarus patriotism) behind Hell's career, the book, unlike most intellectual biographies, portrays the Jesuit scholar's advancement as a constant border-crossing between the changing decentralized and centralizing social, cultural, and political spheres.sAfter the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Austrian History Yearbook Cambridge University Press

Book Review: Maximilian Hell (1720–92) and the Ends of Jesuit Science in Enlightenment Europe

Bodnár-Király, Tibor
Austrian History Yearbook , Volume 52: 2 – May 1, 2021
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Cambridge University Press
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota.
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0067-2378
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1558-5255
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10.1017/S0067237821000278
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sIn the past years, Enlightenment scholarship has witnessed a growing interest in reshaping the traditionally internalist perspective of the history of science. Due to the efforts made in this field, the claim that the rethought research principles apply both internal and external justifications appears to have become a shared principle for new investigations. With their volume, Per Pippin Aspaas and László Kontler join this ongoing debate by emphasizing the primacy of the externalist scope in exploring the social space of the knowledge cultures of the Enlightenment. Thus, the book focuses on the social elements of knowledge production and attempts to build a framework in which the changes in social and cultural space resonate with the way the Enlightenment is perceived. The protagonist of the book is the prominent Jesuit court astronomer Maximilian Hell, a distinguished member of the eighteenth-century respublica astronomica and the leader of the Viennese Observatory. By delineating the cultural initiatives and personal loyalties (the republic of letters, the Habsburg dynasty, the Jesuit Order, and Hungarus patriotism) behind Hell's career, the book, unlike most intellectual biographies, portrays the Jesuit scholar's advancement as a constant border-crossing between the changing decentralized and centralizing social, cultural, and political spheres.sAfter the

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