dc.contributor.author | Ryan, Siobhan Moira | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-01-04T12:24:41Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-01-04T12:24:41Z | |
dc.date.created | 2023-05-30T09:40:03Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Annals of Science. 2023, 80 (4), 303-336. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0003-3790 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3109838 | |
dc.description.abstract | Although natural philosophers of Enlightenment Europe shared common ideals, like reliance on reason and natural philosophy, to promote what they deemed to be progress; there were national differences in attitude and disciplinary focus. This paper takes various eligibility criteria as a starting point from which to define a Nordic Enlightenment science; and situates endeavours in climate science within visions of useful science and international conventions for scientific practice. Two perspectives are explored: the make-up of the Nordic Enlightenment science; and the Nordic natural philosopher’s various platforms for work and knowledge transfer. While historians differ as to what constitutes Enlightenment thought and spirit, I establish the existence of a Nordic Enlightenment science by identifying and examining several of its indicators. The paper concludes with a more specific discussion of climate science in Norway in which I show how climate observations performed during the eighteenth century by a sample of Norway’s clergymen and civil servants bear testimony to an internationally-oriented science, through articles produced for science journals and conventions followed for data presentation and instrumentation. The findings corroborate existing knowledge of a progress-driven, Enlightenment science in Nordic countries; reveal differences between countries, and present Norway’s early-modern climate science in an international light. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Informa UK Limited | en_US |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internasjonal | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.no | * |
dc.title | Norwegian climatology, the Republic of Letters and the Nordic Enlightenment | en_US |
dc.title.alternative | Norwegian climatology, the Republic of Letters and the Nordic Enlightenment | en_US |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | en_US |
dc.type | Journal article | en_US |
dc.description.version | publishedVersion | en_US |
dc.source.pagenumber | 303-336 | en_US |
dc.source.volume | 80 | en_US |
dc.source.journal | Annals of Science | en_US |
dc.source.issue | 4 | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/00033790.2023.2209095 | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 2150051 | |
cristin.ispublished | true | |
cristin.fulltext | original | |
cristin.qualitycode | 2 | |