He ends up falling down the hole, and after a while he finds himself floating in free space. His curiosity drives him to investigate a strange cave in a mountainside above the town, which sends out regular gusts of warm air. The story is set, according to the book, in the Norwegian harbour town of Bergen in 1664, after Klim returns from Copenhagen, where he has studied philosophy and theology at the University of Copenhagen and graduated magna cum laude. It also mentions people “making projects” and thus is another perspective from the late 17 th and early 18 th century see blog posts It describes a utopian society from an outsider’s point of view, and often pokes fun at diverse cultural and social topics such as morality, science, sexual equality, religion, governments, and philosophy. Niels Klim’s Underground Travels, originally published in Latin as Nicolai Klimii Iter Subterraneum in 1741, is a satirical fantasy novel written by the Norwegian-Danish author Ludvig Holberg.
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