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Ulm, Germany 125
Ulva caprina, algae 222
ungesellige Geselligkeit 270. See also Kant,
Immanuel
University of Salzburg
93
University of Trnava 62, 64–65, 74, 376
University of Vienna
6, 34, 57, 59, 62, 64,
68–69, 94, 139, 147, 167, 206, 208, 234,
236, 314, 345, 374
Unzer, Johann Christoph 359
Uppsala, Sweden 113, 154, 158, 164, 175, 178,
181, 184, 209–10, 221, 225, 263, 280
Urania 75, 96, 119, 375–77
Urania-Sternwarten 96
Uranus 71, 375, 377
Vaissète, Jean-Joseph 242, 326
vampirism 98–100, 254
van Musschenbroek, Pieter
Elementa physicae 118
van Swieten, Gérard 51, 60–61, 64, 92, 99,
105, 107, 127, 253–54, 256, 311
van Swieten, Gottfried 318
Vanossius 131
Varanger Peninsula 211
Varaždin (Varasd, Varasdinum, Warasdin),
Croatia 124, 397
Várdai, Pál 41
Vardø (Vardøhus), Norway
122, 137–38, 146,
156, 172, 178, 183, 185–86, 189, 194–95,
199–202, 204–11, 216, 218, 221–26, 229,
231, 234, 236–37, 250, 253–54, 258–66,
268–69, 273–74, 276, 279–81, 283–84,
286–92, 294, 296, 298–301, 303, 305–6,
335, 339, 356, 390
Varia compendia praxesque operationum
arithmeticarum (Hell) 88
Venice, Italy 45, 70, 152, 223–24, 320
Venus 2–6, 32–33, 35, 69, 71, 103, 111, 116,
121–122, 125, 133–72, 174, 177–94, 199,
201–2, 207, 209–11, 214–15, 217–18, 220,
225, 236, 258–63, 265–69, 271–93,
295–97, 299–303, 305–6, 334–35,
340–41, 363, 367, 378, 389–90
1761 transit observations
2–4, 32–33, 35,
103, 111, 116, 121–22, 125, 133–46, 148–66,
168–72, 174, 177–94, 199, 201–2, 209, 211,
215, 217–18, 225, 236, 258, 260–63,
265–69, 271–74, 276–80, 282, 284–86, 288, 291, 293, 295–96, 301–3, 305–6,
334–35, 340, 367, 389–90
recorded transits of 134
transit project of 1761 140, 148, 154
Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie
(voc) 192
Verestói, György 85–86
vernacular language 13, 56, 77, 81, 87, 94, 100,
104, 110, 217, 232, 314–16, 325, 353, 355,
396, 398
Vienna, Austria
1, 5–6, 9, 13, 33–34, 37,
45–47, 50–53, 56–73, 75, 78, 80, 82–88,
90–94, 96, 98, 100–103, 105–7, 109–11,
113, 116, 119–32, 137, 139–41, 144–49,
151–53, 155–56, 163–67, 170–72, 180,
185–93, 195–200, 202, 204–9, 216, 220,
222, 224, 227, 229, 234–36, 239–40,
248–49, 252–55, 259–61, 264–65, 274,
277, 286, 288–89, 293–95, 300, 302,
305–8, 310–11, 314–16, 318–19, 321–22,
324, 328–38, 340–46, 349–54, 357–60,
363–65, 367–75, 386–87, 397
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
Jesuit Observatory, Vienna
60, 67–68, 91,
103, 119, 122–25, 127, 143, 146–47, 333–36,
341
siege of 45
Viennese Academy of Sciences 64, 392
Viennese Botanical Gardens 51,
347
Viennese Imperial and Royal Academy for
Engineering 91
Vilnius, Lithuania 113, 367
Voltaire 2, 12, 60, 103, 136, 272, 316, 323,
326–27, 331
von Borié, Egid Valentin 316
von Born, Ignaz 52, 73, 75, 82, 320–22, 337,
356, 361–64, 366
Briefe über mineralogische
Gegenstände... 320
Specimen monachologiae, methodo
Linnaeano, tabulis tribus aeneis
illustratum 361
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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