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An art historian explores the European Renaissance’s engagement with the Arctic and its relevance to debates about climate change today.

A ‘different kind of wonder’ A ‘different kind of wonder’ SHARE Facebook Share on Facebook X/Twitter Share on Twitter LinkedIn Share on LinkedIn Whiteout daytimes and ghostly dark nights left European Renaissance travelers in the Arctic disoriented in relation to space and time, explains associate professor of art history Christopher Heuer. An expert in visual culture, Heuer joined the University of Rochester faculty in 2018. (Getty Images photo) What did Renaissance Europeans make of the Arctic? And why does it matter now? In 1871, a group of Norwegian hunters discovered an odd clump in the f

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