Artikler, rapporter og annet (historie og religionsvitenskap)

Maximilianus Hell's call for subscriptions to the work Expeditio litteraria ad Polum arcticum

Aspaas, Per Pippin — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Aspaas, Per Pippin
Reproduction of source materials used in the PhD thesis Maximilianus Hell (1720-1792) and the Eighteenth-Century Transits of Venus: A study of Jesuit Science in Nordic and Central European Contexts

Maximilianus Hell’s unfinished introduction to the work Expeditio litteraria ad Polum arcticum

Aspaas, Per Pippin — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Aspaas, Per Pippin
Reproduction of source materials used for the PhD thesis Maximilianus Hell (1720-1792) and the Eighteenth-Century Transits of Venus: A study of Jesuit Science in Nordic and Central European Contexts

Nord og ned til syndens svovelpøl : forestillinger om nordområdene gjennom tidene

Hagen, Rune Blix — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:00:00 GMT

Hagen, Rune Blix

Forum for Development Cooperation with Indigenous Peoples : Welcome and Background for the Conference

Minde, Henry — Fri, 31 Dec 2004 23:00:00 GMT

Minde, Henry
Presentation at the 6th annual Forum for Development Cooperation with Indigenous Peoples, which commenced in 2005. The Centre for Sámi Studies hosted the conference at the University of Tromsø, Norway. Full conference report available at http://hdl.handle.net/10037/2999

Tromsøs samiske historie

Myklebost, Kari Aga — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 23:00:00 GMT

Myklebost, Kari Aga; Balsvik, Randi Rønning; Aspaas, Per Pippin

Hvorfor et forum for urfolksspørsmål?

Minde, Henry — Tue, 31 Oct 2000 23:00:00 GMT

Minde, Henry
Presentation at the 1st annual Forum for Development Cooperation with Indigenous Peoples, which commenced the 6th-7th of November 2000. The Centre for Sámi Studies hosted the conference at the University of Tromsø, Norway. Full conference report available in Munin at http://hdl.handle.net/10037/3004

Maximilian Hell's geomagnetic observations in Norway 1769

Aspaas, Per Pippin — Fri, 31 Dec 2004 23:00:00 GMT

Aspaas, Per Pippin; Hansen, Truls Lynne
In the years 1768-1770 an expedition lead by the Austrian/Hungarian astronomer and Jesuit Father Maximilian Hell travelled to Vardø in the northernmost part of Norway. The main objective of the expedition was to observe the transit of Venus in June 1769. However, scientific investigations in several other fields were also performed, among them observations of the magnetic declination. From the original Latin manuscripts a two months series of declinations in Vardø as well as a number of observations carried out on the return voyage from Vardø, have been extracted. Methods of observations are described. The manuscripts on which the work is based are reproduced in the report.

Til kildene : fortellinger fra tre religioner : Hinduisme, Buddhisme, Islam

Meløe, Sidsel Krosby — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 23:00:00 GMT

Meløe, Sidsel Krosby
Utgitt som rapport 1, 1997 i Skriftserien til Høgskolen i Tromsø, avdeling for lærerutdanning.

"From the Expeditio Litteraria of Maximilian Hell (1768-1770) to La Recherche of Paul Gaimard (1838-1840): Northernmost Fennoscandia in the Encyclopædic Tradition of Science"

Aspaas, Per Pippin — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:00:00 GMT

Aspaas, Per Pippin
How are we, as historians of science, to deal with the history of scientific expeditions whose aims and scope covered multiple branches of research? Should we content ourselves to study the underlying, socio-political contexts motivating the expeditions, and give examples of what impression the local population, the nature, climate, etc. of the region made on the visiting scientists? Or should we attempt to bring our analysis one step further, and study also the scientific activities and achievements themselves? If yes, how? In my paper, I will use two arctic expeditions to illustrate the challenges posed to the historian of science by such many-sided material. In 1768-1770, the court astronomer of Vienna, Maximilian Hell travelled to Vardø in North Norway. The principal aim of the expedition was to observe a transit of Venus, thereby providing data for computation of the size of the solar system. However, the Vienna astronomer had much broader ambitions, and he and his assistants also made substantial research in fields today known as geophysics, marine biology, meteorology, ethnography, and finno-ugric linguistics, to name a few. 70 years later, a multinational team led by the French natural historian Paul Gaimard visited North Norway and other parts of northernmost Europe. The story and chief results of this expedition were subsequently published in 16 volumes of text and two volumes of illustrations, covering geology, astronomy, geophysics, meteorology, history, etc. Arguably, given the encyclopædic nature of the material, both expeditions call for a cross-disciplinary approach from the modern historian as well.