PICTURE 3: The front page of Stöcklein's Welt-Bott published in 1726,
where in later issues many Hallerstein letters were published.
Augu¹tin's death was first announced in Europe in Kölner Zeitung. On October
12, 1774 Vajkard received the report of Bishop Laimbeckhoven from Nanking
about the death of Augu¹tin. On October 18, 1775 Vajkard forwarded the
sad news to his cousin in the manor of Dol.
PICTURE 4: The front page of the positive comment on Hallerstein's book
about astronomical measurements, published in Vienna in 1768 (Nova acta
eruditorum anni 1772 publicata (June), No. 4. Lipsiae. P. 155).
PICTURE 5: The last two pages of the comment on Hallerstein's book of
astronomical measurements published in Vienna in 1768 (Nova acta eruditorum
anni 1772
publicata (June), No. 4. Lipsiae. Pp. 155).
PICTURE 6: The first page of the summary of the Hallerstein computation
of the time difference between Beijing and Petersburg (Hallerstein
1775, 70)
London
PICTURE 7: Hallerstein's drawing about the transition of the moon across
the surface of Mars on December 6, 1747 (Phil. Trans. 1752 (1749-50)
46: 313).
Hallerstein did not publish his opinion about the nature of matter in a
comet and its tail. The problem caused huge polemics a century and a half
later in 1874, when the comet Coggia was seen all over Europe. Astrono-mers
believed for quite some time that the repulsive force of the sun as a light
pressure forces the gaseous part of the comet away from its nucleus. The
frequent talk about the comets in the house of James Clerk Maxwell (1731-1779)
in Cambridge apparently caused the domestic terrier Toby to run in a circle
trying to catch his own tail each time he heard people talking about the
comet's tail.
PICTURE 8: Hallerstein's transition of Venus over the surface of Mars in
March 1748 (Phil.Trans. 1752 (1749-50) 46: 314)
PICTURE 9: The picture of the comet trajectory on May 29, 1748, compared
with the stars (Hallerstein, 1752 (1749-1750), 311, Table I, Figure 2
and 3)
PICTURE 10: The front page of the Beijing observations that Cipolla sent
to London (Phil. Trans. 1774 64: 31).
PICTURE 11: Hallerstein's letter to the Royal Society on September 18,
1750 with Hallerstein's signature (Archive of the Royal Society in London).
PICTURE 12: Protocol of the meeting of the London Royal Society where,
on December 19, 1751, they read Hallerstein's letter about musk-deer,
page 11 (Archive of the Royal Society of London).
PICTURE 13: Hallerstein's description of the musk-deer (lat. Damula
odorifera, today Moschus mochiferus (chrysogaster, sifanicus) from
the species musk-deer
(Mochidae); Chinese: Xiang Zhagzi (Hiam cham su)) (Phil. Trans. 1753
(1751-1752) 47: 321).
PICTURE 14: Sickelbarth's painting of musk-deer (Phil. Trans. 47:
321, tab. XIV).
PICTURE 15: Hallerstein's computing of the number and the increase of the
inhabitants in the Chinese Empire, posthumously published in Paris. His
family name was wrongly spelled as "Allerstain" (Mémoires,
concernant l'histoire, les sciences, les arts, les moeurs, les usages
etc. des Chinois, par les missionnaires de Pe-kin. Paris: Nyon. 1780
Tome 6, page 292).
In 1760 Hallerstein counted 196,837,977 Chinese people, and 1,375,741 more
for the next year. Hallerstein's successors sent the statistics in Chinese,
a copy of the statistics on which Hallerstein had marked in red the impor¬tant
notes, an explanation of the marked characters in Portuguese, and a translation
in French to Paris. Hallerstein wrote in Portuguese because he could not
properly write and speak French, although he could read French books. The
text was therefore translated into French by the French Jesu¬its in Beijing.
PICTURE 16: The number of inhabitants in the 2nd province, called Beijing
(Pe-tche-ly or Tche-ly) (Mémoires, concernant l'histoire, les sciences,
les arts, les moeurs, les usages etc. des Chinois, par les missionnaires
de Pe-kin. Paris: Nyon. 1780 Tome 6, page 374, 375).
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PICTURE 17: The number of inhabitants in the 6th province (T)che-kiang
(Mémoires, concernant l'histoire, les sciences, les arts, les moeurs,
les usages etc. des Chinois, par les missionnaires de Pe-kin. Paris:
Nyon. 1780 Tome 6, page 376).
PICTURE 18: The number of the inhabitants in the 11th province called Ho-nan
(Mémoires, concernant l'histoire, les sciences, les arts, les moeurs,
les usages etc. des Chinois, par les missionnaires de Pe-kin. Paris:
Nyon. 1780 Tome 6, page 377.