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dc.contributor.authorAspaas, Per Pippin
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-24T12:09:01Z
dc.date.available2017-01-24T12:09:01Z
dc.date.issued2016-11-16
dc.description.abstractThe subject of this article is three pieces of elegiac Latin poetry, written in Trondheim by the mayor of the town, Niels Krog Bredal. The occasion for the poems were the transits of Venus occurring in the years 1761 and 1769, a rare phenomenon attracting considerable attention from natural philosophers of the Enlightenment and spurring numerous scientific expeditions across the globe. Bredal wrote the poems to commemorate expeditions undertaken by Thomas Bugge and Urban Bruun Aaskow (Trondheim, 1761), Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein (Trondheim, 1769), and Maximilianus Hell (Vardø, 1769). Bredal is primarily remembered as an important, albeit controversial, figure within Dano-Norwegian theatre history. His Latin poems reveal another side of his character, a person with a keen interest in the natural sciences, and more than willing to express his insights through poetry. The article includes an edition with critical apparatus, translation, and commentary.en_US
dc.descriptionThis is the accepted manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Symbolae Osloenses 2016, 90:205-234, available online at: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00397679.2016.1235875">http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00397679.2016.1235875</a>en_US
dc.identifier.citationSymbolae Osloenses 2016, 90:205-234en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1403604
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00397679.2016.1235875
dc.identifier.issn1502-7805
dc.identifier.issn0039-7679
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/10209
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis (Routledge)en_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.subjectNiels Krog Bredalen_US
dc.subjectoccasional poetryen_US
dc.subjecttransits of Venusen_US
dc.subjecteighteenth centuryen_US
dc.subjectuse of Latinen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Litteraturvitenskapelige fag: 040::Annen romansk litteratur: 049en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Literary disciplines: 040::Other Romance literature: 049en_US
dc.titleAstronomy, Latinity, Enlightenment: Niels Krog Bredal’s Poems Commemorating the Transits of Venus, 1761 and 1769en_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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