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.

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…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.

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