Grønår and Skinår. Weather History for Trøndelag through 1000 years
Edition: 1 Edition
Published: 2010
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 92
ISBN: 9788251926133
by Stein Johansen (ed.)
Tapir academic editions, Trondheim Norway
Re-publication by Gerhard Schøning (1761) and Ole Nordgaard (1920) with introduction by Stein Johansen.
Weather and weather observations are concerned with people at all times. In this book provided some historical perspectives and understandings of the contemporary debate about man-made global warming and natural climate variations. The book also shows how weather and climate in Norway is closely linked to global events and variations.
This is a combined reissue of Gerhard Schöning publication in 1761 of "famine and Misvæxt in Trondheim`s Staple" and Ole Nordgård article from 1920 about the "age of Fighters in Norway". This is an important collection of historical stories about the weather and climate through 1000 years available. The long period covered, the cycles and patterns in climate and consequences for nature, people and society. Variations in weather and climate provides a basis for the civilization and culture development and prosperity but also uncertainty, war, poverty and migration. And behind the bare facts about good and fruitful year with warm summers and mild winters, about extreme weather and crop failures of hunger and disease, we recognize people's hopes and disorders related to changing living conditions.
Gerhard Schöning and Ole Nordgård accounts even though coming from the past contribute to discussions today about weather and climate change.
Schøning donated his library to the Royal society of Trondheim and it consisted of 12,000 volumes. His collection is kept today at the Gunnerus library and it includes 154 volumes of Disertatiae from different universities around Europe. The thick volumes by up to 60 papers in each volume, and approx. 4000 dissertiae in all. These are now cataloged in BIBSYS special code dissertas. There is also an index to the collection (manuscript in folio 188), where the material is arranged by subject.
Upcoming events
The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, is organizing a conference on Climate change and security in Trondheim 21st of June ( see more here ) on the occasion of its 250th anniversary.
references: Tapir book catalog,http://butikk.tapirforlag.no/no/search/node/Stein+Johansen, and
Monica Aase at http://www.dknvsjubileum2010.no/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=34&Itemid=126visited 19.06.2010
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Newton going Digital!
Newtons Principia Mathematica from 1686 is one of the valuable possessions we hold in the Gunnerus library.
This book ended up in Trondheim as a book of the DKNVS collections as one of a kind since the 250 copies that were then printed were very quickly sold out. Library's edition of the Principia Mathematica is probably the very own of Bishop Gunnerus who established DKNVS in 1760.
Before the bishop came to Trondheim and founded the Trondhjemske Company, later called the Royal Norwegian Society affirmation, he sojourned in Halle in the period 1742-1744 and for a longer period then in 1744-1758, in Jena, and one can speculate whether it was under this period in Halle and Jena that he bought this book. When Gunnerus died in 1773 leaving behind him a large debt, his large private library was therefore sold. In the auction catalog it says Gerhard Schøning bought Newton's Principia Mathematica.
The book is considered to be an outstanding scholarly work for the developments in physics and astronomy and the 17th century sciences, and there are hardly any other work in physics, which are similar to that in importance. The work describes the theory that later became known as Newton's laws of motion, which laid the groundwork for classical mechanics and also Newton's universal gravitation theory.
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The translations from Norwegian to English of Gerhard Schønings and Ole Nordgaards publications are wrong. A translation of these two Norwegian language publications might be: "This is a combined reissue of Gerhard Schöning publication from 1761; "A short history of famine and crop failure in Trondhejm`s diocese in Norway" and Ole Nordgaard article from 1920 about "Yearly climate variations in Trøndelag County". Ole Nordgårds name is incorrect. It shall be with two aa in Nordgaard, the way he himself spelled his own name.
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