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Maximilian Hell (1720–92) and the Ends of Jesuit Science in Enlightenment Europe [PDF]
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 ...
Kontler, László, Aspaas, Per Pippin
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Jesuits are known for their fidelity toward papacy. This article suggest regarding the history of this religious order through the life and the activities of two of its members.
Stanisław Obirek
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History of History of Physics [PDF]
The twelve decades of modern academic history of physics have provided enough material for the study of the history of history of physics, the focus of which is the development of the opinions and methods of historians of physics.
Stanislav Južnič
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Renate Wagner-Rieger and Baroque Research in Croatia
The research of Renate Wagner-Rieger has influenced the whole Central European area, as well the development of art history in Croatia, especially architectural research.
Dubravka Botica
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Jesuit members of the mission of Armenia established in 1881 at the initiative of pope Leo XIII were prolific scientific authors. Their apostolic work across central Anatolia, from Marsovan/Merzifon to Adana, provided them with the occasion to become ...
Philippe Bourmaud
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The Jesuits in Ethiopia: Missionary Methods and Local Responses to Catholicism (1555–1632)
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Leonardo Cohen Shabot
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Transforming the East: A New Research Project in Australia
The Jesuit translations of the Confucian canon not only provided one of the first European windows into Chinese culture but also changed the intellectual and cultural history of Europe. This paper introduces a new project, which examines the rich history
Francesco Borghesi +3 more
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Cultural and enlightening activity of Jesuits in Belarus has been studied as a rule by Belarussian scientists from the point of view of forced catholic spreading ideology.
T. I. Nareiko
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The Image of the Jesuit in Russian Literary Culture of the Nineteenth Century
My paper will examine figure of the Jesuit in nineteenth-century literature, a theme which evolves from my thesis on the image of Catholicism. The nineteenth century is of special interest in conjunction with the study of Russian attitudes to religion ...
Elizabeth Harrison
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Almas em busca da salvação: sensibilidade barroca no discurso jesuítico (século XVII)
Para uma compreensão das reduções jesuítico-guaranis na perspectiva de uma história da sensibilidade, procedeu-se a uma releitura das Cartas Ânuas da Província Jesuítica do Paraguai, referentes ao período de 1609 a 1675.
Eliane Cristina Deckmann Fleck
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