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Chapter 6304 Jesuit-run periodical Stimmen aus Maria Laach (Voices from Maria Laach, later renamed Stimmen der Zeit, Voices of the time) repeatedly announced New- comb’s detection as a remarkable feat,161 and the German Jesuit historian Bern hard Duhr (1852–1930) included it in his widely read Jesuiten-Fabeln (Jesuit fables).162 Eventually, the “vindication of Father Hell” became a topic of academic discussion in its own right.163 161 Johann Georg Hagen, “Washington und seine wissenschaftlichen Institute,” Stimmen aus Maria Laach 34 (1888): 551–53; Ludwig von Hammerstein, “Der Astronom P. Hell S.J. und sein Verteidiger Professor Simon Newcomb,” Stimmen aus Maria Laach 39 (1890): 455–58; Hagen, “Karl Littrow als Geschichtsforscher,” Stimmen der Zeit 93 (1917): 108–14. 162 Bernhard Duhr, Jesuiten-Fabeln: Ein Beitrag zur Culturgeschichte 2nd ed. (Freiburg: Her- der, 1892), 465. Altogether, four editions of this book appeared in the years 1891–1904. 163 George Sarton, “Vindication of Father Hell,” Isis 35 (1944): 97–105.