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Jesuit Studies
Modernity through the Prism of Jesuit History
Editor
Robert A. Maryks (Independent Scholar)
Editorial Board
James Bernauer, S.J. (Boston College)
Louis Caruana, S.J. (Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Rome)
Emanuele Colombo (DePaul University)
Paul Grendler (University of Toronto, emeritus)
Yasmin Haskell (University of Western Australia)
Ronnie Po-chia Hsia (Pennsylvania State University)
Thomas M. McCoog, S.J. (Loyola University Maryland)
Mia Mochizuki (Independent Scholar)
Sabina Pavone (Università degli Studi di Macerata)
Moshe Sluhovsky (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Jeffrey Chipps Smith (The University of Texas at Austin)
volume 27
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Maximilian Hell (1720–92)
And the Ends of Jesuit Science in Enlightenment Europe
- Title
- Maximilian Hell (1720–92)
- Subtitle
- And the Ends of Jesuit Science in Enlightenment Europe
- Authors
- Per Pippin Aspaas
- László Kontler
- Publisher
- Brill
- Location
- Leiden
- Date
- 2020
- Language
- English
- License
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-90-04-41683-3
- Size
- 15.5 x 24.1 cm
- Pages
- 492
- Categories
- Naturwissenschaften Physik
Table of contents
- Acknowledgments VII
- List of Illustrations IX
- Bibliographic Abbreviations X
- Introduction 1
- 1 Shafts and Stars, Crafts and Sciences: The Making of a Jesuit Astronomer in the Habsburg Provinces 37
- 2 Metropolitan Lures: Enlightened and Jesuit Networks, and a New Node of Science 91
- 3 A New Node of Science in Action: The 1761 Transit of Venus and Hell’s Transition to Fame 134
- 4 The North Beckons: “A desperate voyage by desperate persons” 172
- 5 He Came, He Saw, He Conquered? The Expeditio litteraria ad Polum Arcticum 209
- 6 “Tahiti and Vardø will be the two columns […]”: Observing Venus andDebating the Parallax 258
- 7 Disruption of Old Structures 305
- 8 Coping with Enlightenments 344
- Appendix 1 Map of the Austrian Province of the Society of Jesus (with Glossary of Geographic Names) 394
- Appendix 2 Instruction for the Imperial and Royal Astronomer Maximilian Hell, S.J 398
- Bibliography 400
- Index 459