Browsing ETD -- Doctoral Dissertations by Subject "18th century France"
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The Art of Making Rain and Fair Weather: The Life and World System of Louis-Bertrand Castel, SJ (1688-1757)
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2016-01-28)This dissertation explores the natural philosophy of the polymath Louis-Bertrand Castel (1688-1757), one of the most prolific and colorful Jesuit thinkers of early modern France. It approaches Castel’s writings as part of ...