![]() ![]() For a number of reasons, however, this instrumental program was more than the society could support. The members even bought his instruments from his widow, intending to continue his measurements. The Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen tried from the beginning to put into effect the program Mohr had outlined. ![]() Because of the lack of governmental and other support, it was not until 1778 that this offspring of the Dutch‐Indonesian Enlightenment became a reality. ![]() Mohr’s initiative inspired other Europeans living on Java around 1770 to start a scientific movement. There he made several major astronomical and meteorological observations. Mohr, whose wife had received a large inheritance, undertook to build a fully equipped private observatory in Batavia (now Jakarta). This essay examines the conditions that triggered and constituted instrumental and institutional science on Indonesian soil in the late eighteenth century. ABSTRACT The transits of Venus in 17 appear to mark the starting point of instrumental science in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). ![]()
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