The amateur astronomer Anders Hellant and the plight of his observations of the transits of Venus in Tornio, 1761 and 1769
Pekonen, O. (2013). The amateur astronomer Anders Hellant and the plight of his observations of the transits of Venus in Tornio, 1761 and 1769. The Journal of Astronomical Data, 19 (1), 49-57. Retrieved from http://www.vub.ac.be/STER/JAD/JAD19/jad19.htm
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2013Discipline
Humanistinen koulutusalaCopyright
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Anders Hellant was a versatile Swedish amateur scientist whose figure
dominated eighteenth century intellectual life in Tornio, his little home town of some
500 inhabitants at the mouth of the Tornio river.
My study is mainly based on the biographies published in Finnish (Bostr¨om 1918)
and in Swedish (Tob´e 1991) but I have also consulted some original sources in Paris
and in Stockholm. Hellant incarnated almost all by himself the inquiring scientific
spirit of the Age of Enlightenment in Swedish Lapland. There is much to be said
about his life and works, but here I focus on his observations of the Venus passages
in 1761 and 1769.
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Vrije Universiteit BrusselISSN Search the Publication Forum
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