Maximilianus Hell (1720-1792) - Munin

UNPRINTED SOURCES AND LITERATURE, 1c: MANUSCRIPTS, REPORTS AND
OTHER DOCUMENTS WRITTEN BY, OR AT LEAST SIGNED BY HELL
Type
Date
Lang.
Source
Ill. = illustration (sketch)
MS = manuscript
PM = pro memoria (i.e. “Gutachten”, ‘expert opinion’)
[in brackets] signifies estimated date, otherwise date as stated by Hell
See above, 1a for abbreviations
See above, 1a for abbreviations
Type Title/opening words (brief description of contents) Date Lang. Source
MS, “Theoria Phœnomeni Ascensus, et Descensus [c. 1761] L WUS
24 pp. Mercurij in Barometris” (unfinished treatise for
Académie Royale des Sciences in Paris)
MS, “Demonstratio qua Vera idea, proponitur tem- [c. 1765] L WUS
7 pp. poris tum Accellerationis fixarum diurnæ præ
motu medio Telluris, tum ipsiusmet Temporis
medij mensura” (unfinished treatise for Académie
Royale des Sciences in Paris)
MS, “Observationes Astronomicæ et Cæteræ Jn Jtinere 1768-69 L WUS
28 pp. litterario Viennâ Wardoëhusium usque factæ 1768.
A. M. Hell” (diary of scientific activities, Oslo 17
July 1768 – Vardø 18 June 1769)
MS, “Observationes Declinationum acûs Magneticæ Jn 1769 L WUS
7 pp. Observatorio Wardoëhusiano 1769.” (magnetic
declinations observed in Vardø, 27 April – 18 June
1769 [facsimile in Hansen & Aspaas 2005])
MS, [no heading] “Jn Parte Jnsulæ occidentali ...” 1769 L WUS
21 pp. (survey of the Vardø island, with calculations,
May 1769)
MS, [no heading] “NB De Horologijs”, “Comparatio 1769 L WUS
3 pp. Quadrantis Haffniensis cum D. Niebuhr”, “War-
do[e]husij maximus æstus habetur...”, “Ex rela-
tione Militis hujatis...” (notes on astronomical
clocks, quadrants, the ebb and flow of the tides
and the decreasing sea level in Vardø, c. May
1769)
MS, “Methodus observandi Declinationes acus mag- 1769-70 L WUS
27 pp. neticæ per iter litterarium ad Polum boreum”
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