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475Index Studien-Hofkommission  64 Styria, Austria  74 sugar  356–57 Sun’s parallax. See solar parallax superstition  11, 80, 97–98, 100–1, 254, 398 “Supplementum dissertationis de parallaxi Solis” (Hell)  294–95 “Sur les passages de Vénus et la parallaxe du Soleil” (Faye)  302 Svatopluk, prince  380 Sweden  111, 145, 148, 153, 174–75, 178, 181–82, 184, 191, 195, 200, 203–4, 212, 228, 237–38, 260, 263, 278, 290, 348 Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm  182, 191, 280 Systema Academiae Montanisticae, Bohemia  50 Széchényi, Ferenc  323 Szekels (székelyek, siculi), Hungrian subgroup  76, 246 Székesfehérvár (Alba Regia, Stuhlweißenburg)  128, 338, 396 Szerdahely, György Alajos  375–78 Apologia pro lingua Latina  378 Aesthetica  376 Ars generalis poetica  376 Historia Uraniae musae  375 Elegia epidictica, per quam demonstratur Uraniam  375 Sztojka, Zsigmond Antal  79–80 Tahiti, French Polynesia  136–38, 181, 258, 271, 278–79, 287, 290, 294 Talvik, Norway  211–12 Tamerlane  315 Tartarotti, Girolamo  100 Tatra Mountains  37 Taucher, Franz  339 telescope  84, 96, 119, 122, 147–48, 202, 261, 267, 362 Telescopium Christiano-Hellianum (von Born)  362–63 Theresan cadaster  91. See also Marinoni, Johann Jakob Theresianum. See Collegium Theresianum, Vienna Thirty Years’ War  15, 44 Thököly, Imre  44–45, 48 Thott, Otto  8, 200–1, 215, 238–39, 274 Thurzó family  39 Tobolsk, Russia  103, 109, 112–13, 137, 143–44, 155 Tomus physicus  220, 222–23. See also Expeditio litteraria Torne River Valley, Finland/Sweden  75, 175, 181 Tragedy of Agis (Bessenyei)  325 Traité physique et historique de l’aurore boréale (de Mairan)  228 Tranquebar, India  112–13, 155, 177 Transylvania  6–7, 34, 41–42, 44–45, 47, 55, 76–78, 80, 82–85, 88, 101, 120, 123, 246, 314, 320, 370–71, 388 Transylvanian Society for Agriculture, Cluj  82 Traunkirchen, Abbey, Austria  73 Trautson, Johann Joseph  92 Traventhal, Germany  197, 199 Treaty of Paris  144 Trébuchet, Claude-Étienne  165–66, 168 Trenčín (Trencsén, Trenchinium, Trentschin), Slovakia  34, 42, 49, 55, 57, 63–66, 88, 128, 254, 397 Tripartitum (Werbőczy)  241, 328 Trnava (Nagyszombat, Tyrnavia, Tyrnau), Slovakia  39, 41–43, 55, 57, 62, 64–65, 74–76, 82, 84, 86–88, 92, 103, 111, 113–14, 128–31, 149–50, 166, 169, 190, 198–99, 217, 231, 234–36, 239, 241, 243, 247–49, 252, 255, 264, 276, 288, 293–94, 330–31, 334–35, 337–39, 341–44, 349–50, 360, 368–70, 372–73, 376, 397 Tromsø, Norway  6, 136, 205, 207, 212–13, 224–25, 261, 266 Trondheim, Norway  112, 137, 172, 177–80, 188, 195, 200–1, 203–5, 211–12, 214–15, 221–22, 224–25, 237–38, 251, 264, 275, 305, 345, 356, 369 Tyrol, Austria  38, 56, 117 “Über den Venusdurchgang von 1769” (Encke)  299, 301 Udine, Italy  91 Ueber die Liebe des Vaterlandes (von Sonnenfels)  309 Ukraine  124
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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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