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Niels Klim’s Subterranean Adventure: A Journey Through Enlightenment Science Fiction

Follow Niels Klim's underground expedition in Ludvig Holberg's remarkable blend of science fiction and Enlightenment ideals. Join him as he explores the wonders beneath the earth and encounters a world unlike any other.

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Niels Klim’s Subterranean Adventure: A Journey Through Enlightenment Science Fiction

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  1. Ludvig Holberg and Science Fiction Niels Klim’s Journey to the World Underground

  2. Born in Bergen 1684 • Educated in Norway and Denmark • Travels England, the Netherlands, Germany • Professor • Baron • Dies 1754

  3. Title Page

  4. Klim finds a cave

  5. Niels falls into the earth

  6. Niels Imperator

  7. Prima Porta Augustus

  8. Bergen

  9. Copenhagen

  10. The age of Reason Enlightenment

  11. 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

  12. …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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