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Bibliographic Abbreviations
Ephemerides Ephemerides Anni […] ad meridianum Vindobonensem jussu Augus-
torum calculis definitae […]. Vienna.
HARS Histoire de l’Académie Royale des Sciences. Paris.
JS Journal des Sçavans. Paris.
KVAH Kongliga Vetenskaps Academiens Handlingar. Stockholm.
NcASIP Novi commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolita-
nae. St. Petersburg.
PTRSL Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. London
Skrifter Kiøb. Skrifter, som udi det Kiøbenhavnske Selskab af Lærdoms og Viden-
skabers Elskere ere fremlagte og oplæste. Copenhagen.
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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