Maximilian Hell (1720-92) and the Ends of Jesuit Science in Enlightenment Europe
The Viennese Jesuit court astronomer Maximilian Hell was a nodal figure in the eighteenth-century circulation of knowledge. He was already famous by the time of his celebrated 1769 expedition for the observation of the transit of Venus in northern Scandinavia. However, the 1773 suppression of his or...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden, The Netherlands :
Koninklijke Brill NV
[2020]
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| Edición: | First edition |
| Colección: | Jesuit studies ;
Volume 27. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009427459706719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Maximilian Hell (1720-92) and the Ends of Jesuit Science in Enlightenment Europe
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Illustrations
- Bibliographic Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Enlightenment(s)
- 2 Catholic Enlightenment-Enlightenment Catholicism
- 3 The Society of Jesus and Jesuit Science
- 4 What's in a Life?
- 1 Shafts and Stars, Crafts and Sciences: The Making of a Jesuit Astronomer in the Habsburg Provinces
- 1 A Regional Life World
- 2 Turbulent Times and an Immigrant Family around the Mines
- 3 Apprenticeship
- 4 Professor on the Frontier
- 2 Metropolitan Lures: Enlightened and Jesuit Networks, and a New Node of Science
- 1 An Agenda for Astronomic Advance
- 2 Science in the City and in the World: Hell and the respublica astronomica
- 3 A New Node of Science in Action: The 1761 Transit of Venus and Hell's Transition to Fame
- 1 A Golden Opportunity
- 2 An Imperial Astronomer's Network Displayed
- 3 Lessons Learned
- 4 "Quonam autem fructu?" Taking Stock
- 4 The North Beckons: "A desperate voyage by desperate persons"
- 1 Scandinavian Self-Assertions
- 2 The Invitation from Copenhagen: Providence and Rhetoric
- 3 From Vienna to Vardø
- 5 He Came, He Saw, He Conquered? The Expeditio litteraria ad Polum Arcticum
- 1 A Journey Finished and Yet Unfinished
- 2 Enigmas of the Northern Sky and Earth
- 3 On Hungarians and Laplanders
- 4 Authority Crumbling
- 6 "Tahiti and Vardø will be the two columns […]": Observing Venus and Debating the Parallax
- 1 Mission Accomplished
- 2 Accomplishment Contested
- 3 A Peculiar Nachleben
- 7 Disruption of Old Structures
- 1 Habsburg Centralization and the De-centering of Hell
- 2 Critical Publics: Vienna, Hungary
- 3 Ex-Jesuit Astronomy: Institutions and Trajectories
- 8 Coping with Enlightenments
- 1 Viennese Struggles.
- 2 Redefining the Center
- Conclusion: Borders and Crossings
- Appendix 1 Map of the Austrian Province of the Society of Jesus (with Glossary of Geographic Names)
- Appendix 2 Instruction for the Imperial and Royal Astronomer Maximilian Hell, S.J.
- Bibliography
- Index.
