Page - V - in Maximilian Hell (1720–92) - And the Ends of Jesuit Science in Enlightenment Europe

Contents Acknowledgments    VII List of Illustrations    IX Bibliographic Abbreviations    x Introduction    1 1 Enlightenment(s)    7 2 Catholic Enlightenment—Enlightenment Catholicism    11 3 The Society of Jesus and Jesuit Science    17 4 What’s in a Life?    26 1 Shafts and Stars, Crafts and Sciences: The Making of a Jesuit Astronomer in the Habsburg Provinces    37 1 A Regional Life World    37 2 Turbulent Times and an Immigrant Family around the Mines    44 3 Apprenticeship    53 4 Professor on the Frontier    76 2 Metropolitan Lures: Enlightened and Jesuit Networks, and a New Node of Science    91 1 An Agenda for Astronomic Advance    91 2 Science in the City and in the World: Hell and the respublica astronomica    106 3 A New Node of Science in Action: The 1761 Transit of Venus and Hell’s Transition to Fame    134 1 A Golden Opportunity    134 2 An Imperial Astronomer’s Network Displayed    144 3 Lessons Learned    155 4 “Quonam autem fructu?” Taking Stock    166 4 The North Beckons: “A desperate voyage by desperate persons”    172 1 Scandinavian Self-Assertions    174 2 The Invitation from Copenhagen: Providence and Rhetoric    185 3 From Vienna to Vardø    195 5 He Came, He Saw, He Conquered? The Expeditio litteraria ad Polum Arcticum    209 1 A Journey Finished and Yet Unfinished    210