AURORAS *HISTORY *AURORAL substorms *DISCOVERIES in geography -- History ARCTIC regions DISCOVERY & exploration NORTHWEST Passage CANADA, Northern People: FRANKLIN, John, Sir, 1786-1847 Abstract (English): In western science the Aurora Borealis has been a fiercely contested site of inquiry with little agreement as to its nature until the twentieth century. This essay surveys the history of auroral science up to the nineteenth century and then complicates the traditional indigenous/western dichotomy regarding supernatural or anomalous experiences by examining occasions when nineteenth-century Arctic explorers, scientists, and fur traders became enchanted by the Aurora Borealis. Drawing mainly on cases from the period of the British quest for the Northwest Passage through the (now Canadian) Arctic (c.1818-59), it demonstrates how scientific uncertainty allowed for occasions when Arctic explorers, scientists, and other travellers could self-consciously become enchanted by aurorae. If we work from the contention that cycles of re-enchantment, rather than sudden disenchantment constitute the modern ising process, then we can challenge the notion of a stable scientific observer of the Aurora Borealis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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