Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment, 2016, p.40-73
2016
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- The Pope and the Englishwoman: Benedict XIV, Jane Squire, the Bologna Academy, and the Problem of Longitude
- Ist Teil von
- Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment, 2016, p.40-73
- Ort / Verlag
- Toronto: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2016
- Quelle
- Alma/SFX Local Collection
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- In the autumn of 1743, three years into his papacy, Benedict XIV received a most unusual letter from an Englishwoman requesting his assistance. She had been working on her solution to the problem of longitude for over a decade without getting the British astronomical and mathematical community to take her seriously. The Longitude Board, established via an Act of Parliament in 1714 to review proposed solutions and award hefty prizes to proposals judged successful, had yet to judge the merits of her work.¹ Frustrated by their collective silence and infuriated by the individual responses she had received from members of
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- DOI: 10.3138/9781442624757-007Titel-ID: cdi_walterdegruyter_books_10_3138_9781442624757_007
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Applied sciences, Astronomy, Catholicism, Celestial coordinate systems, Christianity, Clergy, Earth sciences, Enlightenment, Esotericism, Geography, Horizon coordinate system, Mathematics, Meridian, Observational astronomy, Observational research, Physical sciences, Popes, Practical theology, Religion, Religious experience philosophy, Research methods, Roman Catholic Church, Spherical astronomy, Spiritual belief systems, Spiritual leaders, Theology