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Illustrations
Figures
1 The astronomer Maximilian Hell. Mezzotint (1771), by Johann Elias Haid
(1739–1809). Hungarian National Museum xii
2 Map of source locations of observation reports published in the
Ephemerides 112
3 Map of Hell’s correspondence
115
4 The shift of Venus’s path from two sites of observation 139
5 From Hell’s manual for the 1761 transit of Venus 139
6 The black-drop effect 158
7 The ship of Hell and his associates approaching Kjelvik, the last harbor before
reaching Vardø. Drawing by Hell, published in the Ephemerides of 1791 206
8 Map of the Island of Vardø and with the nearby islands and the coast of
Finnmark, by Hell and the engraver M. T. Sallioth (Insula WARDOEHUUS
cum Adjacentibus Insulis et Littore Finn marchico, a Maximiliano Hell;
M. T. Sallioth fec. [Vienna, 1772]). Hungarian National Library, Map
Department, TR 8 116 207
9 The house of Hell and Sajnovics at Vardø, with the observatoriola on the left.
Drawing by Hell, published in the Ephemerides of 1791 208
10 Maximilian Hell. Copperplate by the Augsburg miniature artist Johann Esaias
Nilson (1721–88), based on a drawing by Wenzel Pohl (1720–90)
219
11 Sámi community, drawing by unknown artist, with annotations by Hell. Univer-
sitätssternwarte Wien, Manuscripte Hell
234
12 Prince Árpád acknowledged as principal leader by raising on the shield (“in a
Khazarian style”) by the Magyar chieftains and their allies. Illustration of a map
of ancient Hungary drawn by Hell on the basis of Anonymus’s Gesta Hunga-
rorum (Tabula geographica Ungariae Veteris Ex Historia Anonymi Belæ Regis
Notarii, a P. Maximiliano Hell S.I. Gabriel Ruderstorffer [Vienna, 1772]). Hungar-
ian National Library, Map Department, TR 378 248
Map
1 Map of the Austrian province of the Society of Jesus
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Maximilian Hell (1720–92)
And the Ends of Jesuit Science in Enlightenment Europe
- Titel
- Maximilian Hell (1720–92)
- Untertitel
- And the Ends of Jesuit Science in Enlightenment Europe
- Autoren
- Per Pippin Aspaas
- László Kontler
- Verlag
- Brill
- Ort
- Leiden
- Datum
- 2020
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-90-04-41683-3
- Abmessungen
- 15.5 x 24.1 cm
- Seiten
- 492
- Kategorien
- Naturwissenschaften Physik
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 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