Ludvig Holberg and Science Fiction
Niels Klim’s Journey to the World Underground
•Born in Bergen 1684•Educated in Norway and Denmark•Travels England, the Netherlands, Germany•Professor•Baron•Dies 1754
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Klim finds a cave
Niels falls into the earth
Niels Imperator
Prima Porta Augustus
Bergen
Copenhagen
The age of Reason Enlightenment
Having agreed for my passage, I went aboard, and with the highest pleasure imaginable began my voyage, inasmuch as I presently observed that these Subterranean vessels are impelled by secret springs and machines which cleave the waters with an astonishing rapidity, and all without the agency of rowers.
IX 99
…The learned, and especially such of them as are conversant in physical inquiries, who know how fertile
Nature is in her productions, will look with a more favorable eye upon the wonderful parts of this narration.
Pg 37
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