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435Bibliography Koerner, Lisbet. Linnaeus: Nature and Nation. Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 1999. Koerner, Lisbet. “Purposes of Linnean Travel: A Preliminary Research Report.” In Vi- sions of Empire: Voyages, Botany, and the Representation of Nature, edited by David Philip Miller and Peter Hanns Reill, 117–52. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Kókay, György. Geschichte des Buchhandels in Ungarn. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1990. Konečný, Peter. 250. výročie Banskej a lesníckej akadémie v Banskej Štiavnici: Jej význam pre vývoj montánneho školstva v Rakúsko—Uhorsku, 1762–1919/250; Jubiläum der Berg- und Forstakademie in Schemnitz; Ihre Bedeutung für die Entfaltung des höheren Montanschulwesens in Österreich-Ungarn, 1762–1919. Košice: Banská agentúra, 2012. Konečný, Peter. “Cestopisy európskych odborníkov ako forma komunikácie poznania o baníctve a hutníctve v Uhorsku, 1651–1759/Reiseberichte europäischer Fachleute als Kommunikationsform des Wissens über das Berg- und Hüttenwesen im Königreich Ungarn, 1651–1759.” Montánna história 7 (2014): 200–39. Konečný, Peter. “Die montanistische Ausbildung in der Habsburgermonarchie, 1763– 1848.” In Staat, Bergbau und Bergakademie: Montanexperten im 18. und frühen 19. Jahrhundert, edited by Hartmut Schleiff and Peter Konečný, 95–124. Stuttgart: Felix Steiner Verlag, 2013. Kontler, László. A History of Hungary. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. Kontler, László. “Introduction: The Enlightenment in Central Europe?” In Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe (1745–1945), vol. 1, Late Enlighten- ment, edited by Balázs Trencsényi and Michal Kopeček, 33–44. Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, 2006. Kontler, László. “Introduction: What Is the (Historians’) Enlightenment Today?” Euro- pean Review of History/Revue d’histoire européenne, Special Issue, “Enlightenment and Communication: Regional Experiences and Global Consequences,” edited by László Kontler, 13, no. 3, (2006): 337–55. Kontler, László. “Distances Celestial and Terrestrial: Maximilian Hell’s Arctic Expedi- tion, 1768–1769; Contexts and Responses.” In The Practice of Knowledge and the Fig- ure of the Savant in the Eighteenth Century, edited by André Holenstein, Hubert Steinke, and Martin Stuber, 721–50. Leiden: Brill, 2013. Kontler, László. “Politicians, Patriots, and Plotters: Unlikely Debates Occasioned by Maximilian Hell’s Venus Transit Expedition of 1769.” Journal of Astronomical Data, Special Issue, “Meeting Venus: A Collection of Papers Presented at the Venus Transit Conference in Tromsø 2012,” edited by Christiaan Sterken and Per Pippin Aspaas, 19, no. 1 (Brussels and Tromsø: C. Sterken and University of Tromsø, 2013): 83–93
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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

  1. Acknowledgments VII
  2. List of Illustrations IX
  3. Bibliographic Abbreviations X
  4. Introduction 1
    1. 1 Enlightenment(s) 7
    2. 2 Catholic Enlightenment—Enlightenment Catholicism 11
    3. 3 The Society of Jesus and Jesuit Science 17
    4. 4 What’s in a Life? 26
  5. 1 Shafts and Stars, Crafts and Sciences: The Making of a Jesuit Astronomer in the Habsburg Provinces 37
    1. 1 A Regional Life World 37
    2. 2 Turbulent Times and an Immigrant Family around the Mines 44
    3. 3 Apprenticeship 53
    4. 4 Professor on the Frontier 76
  6. 2 Metropolitan Lures: Enlightened and Jesuit Networks, and a New Node of Science 91
    1. 1 An Agenda for Astronomic Advance 91
    2. 2 Science in the City and in the World: Hell and the respublica astronomica 106
  7. 3 A New Node of Science in Action: The 1761 Transit of Venus and Hell’s Transition to Fame 134
    1. 1 A Golden Opportunity 134
    2. 2 An Imperial Astronomer’s Network Displayed 144
    3. 3 Lessons Learned 155
    4. 4 “Quonam autem fructu?” Taking Stock 166
  8. 4 The North Beckons: “A desperate voyage by desperate persons” 172
    1. 1 Scandinavian Self-Assertions 174
    2. 2 The Invitation from Copenhagen: Providence and Rhetoric 185
    3. 3 From Vienna to Vardø 195
  9. 5 He Came, He Saw, He Conquered? The Expeditio litteraria ad Polum Arcticum 209
    1. 1 A Journey Finished and Yet Unfinished 210
    2. 2 Enigmas of the Northern Sky and Earth 220
    3. 3 On Hungarians and Laplanders 230
    4. 4 Authority Crumbling 256
  10. 6 “Tahiti and Vardø will be the two columns […]”: Observing Venus andDebating the Parallax 258
    1. 1 Mission Accomplished 260
    2. 2 Accomplishment Contested 269
    3. 3 A Peculiar Nachleben 298
  11. 7 Disruption of Old Structures 305
    1. 1 Habsburg Centralization and the De-centering of Hell 306
    2. 2 Critical Publics: Vienna, Hungary 315
    3. 3 Ex-Jesuit Astronomy: Institutions and Trajectories 330
  12. 8 Coping with Enlightenments 344
    1. 1 Viennese Struggles 344
    2. 2 Redefining the Center 366
    3. Conclusion: Borders and Crossings 388
  13. Appendix 1 Map of the Austrian Province of the Society of Jesus (with Glossary of Geographic Names) 394
  14. Appendix 2 Instruction for the Imperial and Royal Astronomer Maximilian Hell, S.J 398
  15. Bibliography 400
  16. Index 459
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