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North Beckons
Kystartilleriet, 1960), 92–125 (a German translation was issued by the Tornedalica Founda-
tion in Luleå, 1997). See also Truls Lynne Hansen and Per Pippin Aspaas, Maximilian Hell’s
Geomagnetic Observations in Norway 1769, Tromsø Geophysical Observatory Reports no. 2
(Tromsø: University of Tromsø, 2005); Aspaas and Lynne Hansen, “Geomagnetism by the
North Pole, Anno 1769: The Magnetic Observations of Maximilian Hell during His Venus
Transit Expedition,” Centaurus: An International Journal of the History of Science and Its
Cultural Aspects 49 (2007): 138–64; Aspaas, “Maximilian Hell og Johannes Sajnovics”;
Figure 8 Map of the Island of Vardø with the nearby islands and the coast of Finnmark
Map by Hell and the engraver M.T. Sallioth (Insula WARDOEHUUS cum Adjacenti-
bus Insulis et Littore Finn marchico, a Maximiliano Hell; M.T. Sallioth fec. [Vienna,
1772]). Hungarian National Library, Map Department, TR 8 116
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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