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Aspaas, “Maximilian Hell’s Invitation to Norway,” in Konferenzbeiträge/Proceedings: Fest-
kolloquium und Fachtagung 250 Jahre Universitätssternwarte Wien, ed. Maria G. Firneis
and Franz Kerschbaum, Communications in Asteroseismology 149 (Vienna: Austrian
Academy of Science Press, 2008), 10–20; Nils Voje Johansen, “In ultimo fine Europae: As-
tronomen Maximilian Hell på besøk i Vardø,” in Kompassrosen: Orientering mot Nord, ed.
Benedicte Gamborg Briså and Bente Lavold (Oslo: Nasjonalbiblioteket, 2009), 40–51.
Figure 9 The house of Hell and Sajnovics at Vardø, with the makeshift observatory annexed
on the left
Drawing by Hell, published in the Ephemerides for the year 1791 (printed 1790).
Digitized by the Department of Astrophysics at the University of Vienna
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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