scholarly journals Biographical Introduction, Summary of Contents (Danish original), Summary of Contents (German edition) and Summary of Contents (English edition)

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Per Pippin Aspaas
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
English Edition ◽  
Aurora Borealis ◽  
History Of ◽  
German Edition

The seventh volume in the series consists of extracts from Erich Pontoppidan's Natural History of Norway, originally published in Danish in 1752 and soon followed by a German (1753) and an English edition (1755). All three editions are included, with extracts covering Pontoppidan's treatment of the aurora borealis and closely related subjects. They are introduced by a biographical essay and summaries of contents by Per Pippin Aspaas from UiT The Arctic University of Norway.

scholarly journals Extracts from Natural History of Norway (1755)

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Per Pippin Aspaas
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
English Edition ◽  
Aurora Borealis ◽  
History Of

The file is a facsimile of extracts from the first English edition of Pontoppidan's Norges Naturlige Historie (Natural History of Norway, 1755), covering the description of the aurora borealis in this work. For a detailed summary of contents, see the introduction by Per Pippin Aspaas, pp. 16-20.

scholarly journals Making Sense of the Aurora: A Research Project

Nordlit ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Robert Marc Friedman
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Aurora Borealis ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Northern Latitudes ◽  
Rational Science ◽  
History Of ◽  
Natural Philosophers ◽  
The Cold War

The article provides an introduction to a on-going research project based at University of Tromsø that seeks to analyze the history of efforts to make sense of the aurora borealis from the early 1700s through to the Cold War. Following brilliant displays of the northern lights in the early eighteenth century, natural philosophers strove to explain this phenomenon that evoked widespread fear and superstition. It was not until well into the twentieth century that consensual explanation emerged for this, one of the great enigmas in the history of science. From the start, the quest to explain the aurora borealis became enmeshed with patriotic science and nationalist sentiments. The history of efforts to understand the nature and cause of the aurora poses a number of thematic problems. Being a fleeting and at times rapidly changing phenomenon, only occasionally seen south of far-northern latitudes, the aurora needed to be constituted as an object able to be brought into the domain of rational science. Observational accounts of the aurora came most often from by personsliving or travelling in the far north or in the Arctic, but these persons were generally not trained scientists: Whose witnessing counted and how was authority negotiated among professional scientists and amateurs?

The Politics of Color in the Arctic Landscape: Blackness at the Center of Frederic Edwin Church's Aurora Borealis and the Legacy of 19th-Century Limits of Representation

ARTMargins ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 6-26
Author(s):  
Noelle Belanger ◽  
Anna Westerstahl Stenport
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Satellite Imagery ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Western Tradition ◽  
Urban Modernity ◽  
Oil Painting ◽  
Aurora Borealis ◽  
History Of ◽  
Circumpolar North ◽  
Rich History

American painter Frederic Edwin Church's monumental oil painting Aurora Borealis (1865) presents a stark contrast to the dominant Western tradition of representing the Arctic as monochrome and static. This article discusses how the impressive palette of Aurora Borealis and its black semi-circle in the center allow for a revisionist understanding of Church's contributions to a rich history of Arctic representation, including in an age of climate change and rapidly melting ice. The article connects Aurora Borealis to emerging lens technologies—especially photography and astronomy, and later the cinema and composite satellite imagery, to argue for circumpolar north as globally connected—then, and now. The article furthermore draws connections to the nineteenth-century trade in pigments, the interconnected routes of slavery, and cultural modes of urban modernity.

scholarly journals Biographical introduction, Summary of Contents (Danish edition) and Summary of Contents (English edition)

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Kira Moss
Keyword(s):  
The Arctic ◽  
English Version ◽  
English Edition ◽  
Aurora Borealis ◽  
University Library ◽  
The University

The sixth volume in the series consists of Sophus Tromholt's monograph Under Nordlysets Straaler, first published in Danish in 1885 and then in a slightly different English version (Under the Rays of the Aurora Borealis, in two vols.) later in the same year. Both editions are included here, digitized from copies kept by the University Library of UiT The Arctic University of Norway. They are introduced by a biographical essay and summaries of contents by Kira Moss, UiT in Tromsø.

How is the moral stance related to the intentional stance and group thinking?

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannes Rakoczy
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Intentional Stance ◽  
Cognitive Capacities ◽  
Shared Intentionality ◽  
History Of ◽  
Group Thinking ◽  
Moral Stance

Abstract The natural history of our moral stance told here in this commentary reveals the close nexus of morality and basic social-cognitive capacities. Big mysteries about morality thus transform into smaller and more manageable ones. Here, I raise questions regarding the conceptual, ontogenetic, and evolutionary relations of the moral stance to the intentional and group stances and to shared intentionality.

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