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Index Académie des Inscriptions et des belles Lettres, Paris  176 A magyar nemzetnek szokásairul... (Bessenyei)  326–27 A magyar néző (Bessenyei)  326 A’törvénynek útja (Bessenyei)  328 Aaskow, Urban Bruun  180 Abafi, Ludwig (Lajos) Geschichte der Freimaurerei in Österreich-Ungarn  319 absolutism  7, 306–7, 324, 386. See also Habsburgs enlightened absolutism  7, 306–7 unenlightened absolutism  386 Académie des Sciences, Paris  103, 127, 143, 145, 152–53, 163, 182, 285, 294, 296, 302, 390 Académie Royale des Sciences, Paris  3, 103, 128, 162, 179–80, 182, 210, 217, 272, 274, 278–79, 345 Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna  122 Academy of Stockholm, Stockholm  178 Adjumentum memoriae manuale chronologico-genealogico-historicum (Hell)  70 Adolphus, Gustavus  174 Advancement of Learning (Bacon)  385 Aesthetica (Szerdahely)  376 Affinitas linguae Hungaricae cum linguis Fennicae... (Gyarmathi)  235 Ahasverus (Xerxes)  315 Alexander the Great  245, 380 Alexandrovich, Paul (Grand Duke Paul of Russia)  352 Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie  67 Allgemeine Naturgeschichte und Theorie des Himmels (Kant)  375 Allgemeine nordische Geschichte (von Schlözer)  233, 247, 381 Alma Universitas  81 Almagestum novum (Riccioli)  168 Altdorf, Switzerland  50–51 Aman, Cäsar  261 Amazon River  66 Angevins  38–39 Anich, Peter  116–17, 152, 371 Animadversiones Subitaneæ (Planman and Kreander)  292 Anleitung zum nützlichen Gebrauch der künstlichen Stahl-Magneten (Hell)  85, 94 Annales Ungaria (Pray)  249 Annales veteres Hunnorum Avarum et Hungarorum (Pray)  240, 249 Anonymus Bele regis notarius  240–41, 246–48 Gesta Hungarorum  240–41, 247 anti-clericalism  365 anti-Jesuitism  17 antiquarianism  82 Apologia pro lingua latina (Szerdahely)  378 Arabia Felix, expedition  175–77, 202, 224, 274 Arctic circle  35 Arctic expedition  3, 75, 127, 129, 136, 173, 297, 303, 333, 344, 367, 369, 390 Arctic Sea  195, 228 Aristotelianism  21, 23 Arkhangelsk, Russia  177 Armenians  77 Árpád (prince)  248 Ars generalis poetica (Szerdahely)  376 Astronomiae physicae juxta Newtoni principia breviarium (Weiss)  76 astronomical observatory  67, 74, 83, 131, 149, 336–37. See also specific locations Astronomie (de Lalande)  83, 160, 168, 284–85, 287 Astronomisches Jahrbuch, Berlin  109–10, 164, 336 Attila the Hun  240–41, 246, 254, 328 Audiffredi, Giovanni Battista  160 Aulic War Council  91 aurora borealis  75, 86–87, 126, 209, 225–26, 228–29, 257, 272, 358, 360, 389 Aurorae borealis theoria nova (Hell)  126, 216, 226–27 Austrian Academy of Sciences  306, 351 * Index prepared by Raymond Depew-Paas.
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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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