Reception of Explorers and Philosophers Active in Foreign Countries and Continents in the 17th and 18th Centuries

Skupina hrvatskih misionara koji djeluju u prekooceanskim zemljama ističu se kao istraživači, geografi, kartografi, a neki od njih i kao filozofski autori. O njihovoj djelatnosti pišu njihovi suvremenici, također misionari ili kroničari i povjesničari (M. Dobrizhoffer, F. Paucke, A. Eckart, F. Clavijero i dr.), a obrađuju njihov rad i misao mnogi kasniji američki i europski povjesničari i istraživači. Od hrvatskih filozofskih autora izdvajam na kraju nekoliko njih koji unose nove ideje u Austrijskoj Monarhiji, a njihov doprinos vrednuju stariji i moderni povjesničari iz susjednih zemalja.A group of Croatian missionaries active overseas comprised prominent explorers, geographers, cartographers, and some of them were philosophical authors. Their contemporaries, also missionaries, or historians and chroniclers (M. Dobrizhoffer, F. Paucke, A. Eckart, F. Clavijero, and others), wrote about their work, and their activities and thought were discussed by a number of subsequent American and European historians and researchers. I finally focus on some of the Croatian philosophical authors who brought novel ideas into the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, and their work was evaluated by the older and the more recent historians from the neighboring countries