Libraries and Enlightenment : Eighteenth-Century Norway and the Outer World

Libraries and Enlightenment : Eighteenth-Century Norway and the Outer World

Gina Dahl

Språken
FörlagAarhus Universitetsforlag
ISBN9788771248173

Books are written to entertain and to inform, and during the Enlightenment, accounts of other worlds became popular as trade routes, scientific and leisure travel to faraway places made the world seem smaller. Books on 'outer worlds', classified in libraries as 'historia', were very important in con