The Uses of Knowledge and the Symbolic Map of the Enlightened Monarchy of the Habsburgs: Maximilian Hell as Imperial and Royal Astronomer (1755–1792)

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    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 languageAmerican English
    Title of host publicationNegotiating Knowledge in Early Modern Empires: A Decentered View
    EditorsLászló Kontler, Antonella Romano, Silvia Sebastiani, Borbála Zsuzsanna Török
    Place of PublicationNew York
    PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
    Pages79-105
    Number of pages27
    ISBN (Print)978-1-137-48401-7
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 2014

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