Abstract (may include machine translation)
Maximilian Hell (1720–1792) was one of the foremost Jesuit scholars in eighteenth-century Central Europe.1 He is chiefly remembered on account of his contribution to the 1769 Venus transit observations at the helm of an expedition to the Arctic region, and his calculation of the solar parallax based on the collation of his own data with others. He was also the éminence grise behind the other result of the expedition, the Demonstratio. Idioma Ungarorum et Lapponum idem esse, published in 1770 by his assistant János (Joannes) Sajnovics and “demonstrating” on the basis of fieldwork among the Sámi the theory of the kinship of the Hungarian and Sámi (Lappish) languages.
Original language | American English |
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Title of host publication | Negotiating Knowledge in Early Modern Empires: A Decentered View |
Editors | László Kontler, Antonella Romano, Silvia Sebastiani, Borbála Zsuzsanna Török |
Place of Publication | New York |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pages | 79-105 |
Number of pages | 27 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-1-137-48401-7 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2014 |