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Museum Mathematicum, Vienna
68, 84, 141
Museum of Natural History, Vienna 52
Naples, Italy 9, 113, 200
Nautical Almanac, London 109–10, 170
navigation 23, 263, 342
Nemesis Theresiana 317
Netherlands 71, 319
New World
39, 47
Newcomb, Simon 303–4
“Discussion of Observations of the
Transits of Venus in 1761…” 303
Newton, Isaac 14, 18, 25, 30, 62, 70, 76, 118, 218
Newtonian astronomy 25
Hell, Maximillian and 4, 70, 76, 118, 218
Principia 76
telescope
121–22, 84
theory of gravity 86, 135, 218
Newtonianism 69, 88
Niebuhr, Carsten 176–78, 202, 222–24,
263–65
Nilson, Johann Esaias 219
Nomenclator (Leem) 236–37
Norges Naturlige Historie
(Pontoppidan) 221, 223
northern lights. See aurora borealis
Norway 2, 87, 95, 124, 172, 174, 179–86, 195,
200–1, 203–4, 207–9, 212–13, 215, 220–21,
227–28, 236–39, 259, 279, 286, 295, 305,
340, 344
Notitia Hungariae (Bél) 50, 323
Nova acta eruditorum, Leipzig 101, 164, 168,
216
Nova grammatica Ungarica (Molnár) 238
Nova reformatio, University of Vienna 59
Novaya Zemlya, Russia 229
Novi commentarii Academiae Scientiarum
Imperialis Petropolitanae. St.
Petersburg 160, 164, 262, 282
Nuremberg, Germany 50–51
Oberkunstmeister 48, 53
Oberperfuss, Austria 117
“Observationes astronomicae Agriae in
Ungaria…” 372
“Observationes astronomicae anni 1761 &
1762...” (Hell) 154
“Observationes astronomicae et caeterae…”
(Hell) 156, 202, 263, 265, 273, 301 “Observationes astronomicae in Novo
Observatorio…” (Hell) 372
“Observationes astronomicae latitudinum, et
longitudinum…” (Hell) 212–13, 215,
259, 263, 333, 370
“Observationes astronomicae latitudinum
geographicarum…” (Hell) 370–71
Observatio transitus Veneris (1761) (Hell) 122,
145–52, 163, 296, 340
Observatio transitus Veneris (1769) (Hell) 122,
187, 189, 193, 202, 211, 259, 261–62,
267–69, 278, 283, 301
Observationes meteorologicae in insula Maris
Glacialis Wardoehus dicta (Hell) 358
Observatoire Royal, France 124, 146
observatoriolum australe 267
observatories
Altdorf 51
Benedictine, Kremsmünster 93–94, 151,
334–35, 341
Benedictine, Lambach 336
Bologna 152
Brera, Milan 152
Buda 335, 338–39, 343, 369, 372
Castle Wetzlas, Pölla 121–22
Eger 130, 170, 191, 367–70, 372–73, 378
Graz 68, 73, 75, 131–33, 151, 336–37, 341
Imperial and Royal Observatory (Vienna
University Observatory), Vienna 1,
34–35, 67, 86, 90–93, 95–97, 105–8, 111,
117, 122, 124, 127–29, 133, 140, 143, 145–49,
154, 166–67, 187, 202, 253, 264, 295, 300,
302–3, 306–7, 331–34, 340–42, 349, 352,
375, 388, 391
Imperial Observatory, St. Petersburg 154,
277
Jakarta 192
Jesuit Academy, Cluj 76, 82–84, 335
Jesuit Observatory, Vienna
60, 67–68,
91, 103, 119, 122–25, 127, 143, 146–47,
333–36, 341
Kraków 149
Lyon 153
Lviv 333–34
Marinoni’s home, Vienna 91
Pondicherry 144
Royal Observatory, Greenwich 170
Royal Observatory, Stockholm 153
Royal Observatory, Uppsala 184
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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