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

Illustrations Figures 1 The astronomer Maximilian Hell. Mezzotint (1771), by Johann Elias Haid (1739–1809). Hungarian National Museum    xii 2 Map of source locations of observation reports published in the Ephemerides    112 3 Map of Hell’s correspondence    115 4 The shift of Venus’s path from two sites of observation    139 5 From Hell’s manual for the 1761 transit of Venus    139 6 The black-drop effect    158 7 The ship of Hell and his associates approaching Kjelvik, the last harbor before reaching Vardø. Drawing by Hell, published in the Ephemerides of 1791    206 8 Map of the Island of Vardø and with the nearby islands and the coast of Finnmark, by Hell and the engraver M. T. Sallioth (Insula WARDOEHUUS cum Adjacentibus Insulis et Littore Finn marchico, a Maximiliano Hell; M. T. Sallioth fec. [Vienna, 1772]). Hungarian National Library, Map Department, TR 8 116    207 9 The house of Hell and Sajnovics at Vardø, with the observatoriola on the left. Drawing by Hell, published in the Ephemerides of 1791    208 10 Maximilian Hell. Copperplate by the Augsburg miniature artist Johann Esaias Nilson (1721–88), based on a drawing by Wenzel Pohl (1720–90)    219 11 Sámi community, drawing by unknown artist, with annotations by Hell. Univer- sitätssternwarte Wien, Manuscripte Hell    234 12 Prince Árpád acknowledged as principal leader by raising on the shield (“in a Khazarian style”) by the Magyar chieftains and their allies. Illustration of a map of ancient Hungary drawn by Hell on the basis of Anonymus’s Gesta Hunga- rorum (Tabula geographica Ungariae Veteris Ex Historia Anonymi Belæ Regis Notarii, a P. Maximiliano Hell S.I. Gabriel Ruderstorffer [Vienna, 1772]). Hungar- ian National Library, Map Department, TR 378    248 Map 1 Map of the Austrian province of the Society of Jesus    395