• Introduction: Ways of Life 

      Dunér, David; Aspaas, Per Pippin; Ilmakunnas, Johanna; Hansen, Søren Peter; Róbertsdóttir, Hrefna (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      What was it like to live in the eighteenth century? How did our predecessors perceive and experience their physical and sociocultural environment? How did they understand and explain what was going on around them? How did they think, feel, and communicate? And in more concrete terms: How did the food taste, the music sound, the streets and backyards smell, the heat and cold feel on their skin? How ...
    • Kolsrudsamlingen - en glemt Nord-Norgehistorie 

      Aspaas, Per Pippin (Chronicle; Kronikk, 2016-02-22)
    • Mark A. Waddell, Jesuit Science and the End of Nature’s Secrets (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015), 214 pp. 

      Aspaas, Per Pippin (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2016-11)
      Book review of Mark A. Waddell: Jesuit Science and the End of Nature’s Secrets (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015), 214 pp.
    • Maximilian Hell (1720–92) and the Ends of Jesuit Science in Enlightenment Europe 

      Aspaas, Per Pippin; Kontler, László (Book; Bok, 2020)
      The Viennese Jesuit court astronomer Maximilian Hell was a nodal figure in the eighteenth-century circulation of knowledge. He was already famous by the time of his celebrated 1769 expedition for the observation of the transit of Venus in northern Scandinavia. However, the 1773 suppression of his order forced Hell to develop ingenious strategies of accommodation to changing international and domestic ...
    • Meeting Venus: A Collection of Papers Presented at the Venus Transit Conference Tromsø 2012 

      Aspaas, Per Pippin; Sterken, Christiaan (Book; Bok, 2013)
      On 2–3 June 2012, the University of Tromsø hosted a conference about the cultural and scientific history of the transits of Venus. The conference took place in Tromsø for two very specific reasons. First and foremost, the last transit of Venus of this century lent itself to be observed on the disc of the Midnight Sun in this part of Europe during the night of 5 to 6 June 2012. Second, several Venus ...
    • The Neo-Latin Podcast, episode 5: Johannes Schefferus 

      Klein, Andreas; Aspaas, Per Pippin (Others; Andre, 2023-02-02)
      In this episode, Dr Per Pippin Aspaas and Dr Andreas Klein discuss the ‘Lapponia’ of Uppsala professor Johannes Schefferus (1621-1679), a work which introduces the Sámi people and their region. <p> <p>First recorded in January 2023. Published at <a href=https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/snls/podcast>https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/snls/podcast</a>, 2 February 2023.
    • Networking the Republic of Letters 

      Ahnert, Ruth; Ahnert, Sebastian E.; Aspaas, Per Pippin; Hotson, Howard; Kudella, Christoph; Mantouvalos, Ikaros; Sfoini, Alexandra; Skolimowska, Anna (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2019)
      In recent years it has become common to speak about the republic of letters as a network. But this was not always the case. Rather, it is the product of a specific set of conditions: the confluence of readily available digitized documents, computational power to analyse that data, and a ready acceptance of the ‘network perspective’ in the popular consciousness. In our increasingly interconnected ...
    • Nicolai Krog Bredal Oneiro-Kosmos. Id est mundus in somnio, poëma philosophico-heroicum (Hafniae, 1753): Editio diplomatica, praefatione notisque instructa 

      Aspaas, Per Pippin (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      <i>Introduction</i>: Die 2:o mensis Martii anni 1753 textus Latine conscriptus c.t. <i>ONEIRO-KOSMOS. Id est Mundus in Somnio, Poéma Philosophico-Heroicum</i> paginas 66<sup>am</sup> ad 73<sup>am</sup> periodici <i>Kiøbenhavnske nye Tidender om lærde og curieuse Sager</i> (sive 'Novellae Hafnienses de rebus eruditis scituque diagnis') nuncupati implevit. Quo in periodico alias Danica lingua colebatur, ...
    • Niels Krog Bredals Oneiro-Kosmos (1753): oversatt til norsk, med en innledning og etterskrift. 

      Aspaas, Per Pippin (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-05-01)
    • The Nordic Podcast 008 - Per Pippin Aspaas 

      Aspaas, Per Pippin; Veress, Dávid (Others; Andre, 2020-04-14)
      Interview with Per Pippin Aspaas, Norwegian historian of sciences, vocal advocate of Open Access, and senior academic librarian in Tromsø.
    • Nordlysforskningens historie 

      Aspaas, Per Pippin (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2013)
      Nordlyset fascinerer og har fascinert mennesker i årtusener, men når fikk det nedtegnet sin historie? HIFO Tromsø har sett nærmere på nordlysforskningen.
    • Nytt og fanzy, eller traust og trygt? 

      Aspaas, Per Pippin (Chronicle; Kronikk, 2018-06-03)
      Om universitetenes rolle som kunnskapsformidler på nett, eksemplifisert gjennom <a href=https://arkitekturguide.uit.no/> Arkitekturguide for Nord-Norge og Svalbard</a>
    • Oassi sámi noaidevuođa birra Kaspar Peucera čállosis Commentarius de praecipuis divinationum generibus (Wittenberg 1560): Teakstakritihkalaš hámis jorgalusain ja kommentáraiguin 

      Aspaas, Per Pippin; Gaski, Harald (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      The text on Sami shamanism in Caspar Peucer’s Commentarius de praecipuis divinationum generibus (Wittenberg 1560): Critical edition, with translation and commentary. Among the sources dealing with the shamanistic skills of the Sami (formerly Lapponian) population, a certain text by Kaspar Peucer has so far been little known. This man of extreme learning was the son-in-law of Philip Melanchthon and ...
    • The oldest printed maps of the Farthest North 

      Hansen, Poul Henning Gustaf; Aspaas, Per Pippin (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      <p>“Looking to the North” is a unique cartographic exhibition currently on display at the Polar Museum in Tromsø. The exhibition features some of the most spectacular printed maps of the northern regions, among them a copy of the first printed map of the European Far North, published in Ulm 1482, in present-day Germany. UiT The Arctic University of Norway boasts one of the finest collections of ...
    • Open Access. (Søke)kurs for folkebibliotek 

      Aspaas, Per Pippin (Conference object; Konferansebidrag, 2018-09)
    • Open Polar – a global open access portal to research on the polar regions 

      Dijkstra, Noortje; Abu-Alam, Tamer; Aspaas, Per Pippin; Figenschou, Lars; Longva, Leif; Nilsen, Karl Magnus; Odu, Obiajulu (Conference object; Konferansebidrag, 2021-11)
      Research activities and research output, in general, have increased, and keep increasing vastly, and so too is research on the polar regions including Svalbard in the Arctic. Major commercial publishers have built subscription-based services which present research literature for a fee. As Open Science and open access to literature and data is gaining momentum, there is a distinct need for powerful ...
    • A preliminary survey of Nordic digital scholarly editions 

      Conzett, Philipp; Aspaas, Per Pippin (Conference object; Konferansebidrag, 2015-10-29)
    • Rara avis in Ultima Thule: Libellus festivus Sunnivae des Bouvrie dedicatus / Festschrift for Synnøve des Bouvrie 

      Aspaas, Per Pippin; Albert, Sigrides; Nilsen, Fredrik (Others; Andre, 2014)
    • Rara avis in Ultima Thule: Praefatio 

      Aspaas, Per Pippin; Albert, Sigrides; Nilsen, Fredrik (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2014)
    • Rara avis in Ultima Thule: Preface 

      Aspaas, Per Pippin; Albert, Sigrides; Nilsen, Fredrik (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2014)