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Hell, Maximilian, 1720-1792

(Person)
Man

Living period

Born 1720
Death 1792

Nationality

Hungary

Biography

Astronomer and an ordained Jesuit priest, director of the observatorium in Vienna in 1756. Upon the invitation of the King of Denmark he went to the north of Norway in 1769 to observe the transit of Venus before the sun. The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters funded the publication of his 1770 account of the Venus passage.

Source

F. Szenkovits, "Hell Miksa (Maximilian Hell,1720–1792 )", Technical Review, Historia Scientiarum 2 30 (2005) 13–26 (summary in English); art. in Wikipedia based on Alexander Moutchnik, Forschung und Lehre in der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts: Der Naturwissenschaftler und Universitätsprofessor Christian Mayer SJ (1719-1783) (2004).

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