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Voyages to the Moon — Set of 5 Books
Lucian 2nd c. · Kepler 1634 · Wilkins 1638 · Godwin 1638 · Cyrano 1659 · the Moon in ancient and early modern imagination
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- A True Story: The First Voyage to the Moon
A 1,850-year-old story of a voyage to the Moon, a war with the Sun and a giant whale: Lucian's A True Story, complete in modern English. "In one thing at least I shall tell the truth: I say that I am lying," it begins, and it is often called one of the first works of science fiction. A whirlwind carries a Greek ship to the Moon, and the travellers end up in a war between the Moon and the Sun.
58 pages€6.79 - The Dream, or Lunar Astronomy: Kepler’s Journey to the Moon
How would our Earth look from the Moon? Around 1609, before anyone had seen the Moon through a telescope, the astronomer Johannes Kepler wrote a dream: an Icelandic boy, his mother who summons a daemon, and a journey to the Moon along the Earth's shadow during an eclipse. Kepler's Somnium (Frankfurt, 1634) is often called one of the first works of science fiction — here complete, in modern English, with all 223 of Kepler's own notes.
105 pages€6.79 - The Discovery of a World in the Moon: Is the Moon Inhabited?
Is the Moon inhabited? In 1638, only a generation after Galileo first turned a telescope on the sky, a 24-year-old Oxford scholar set out to prove, in thirteen careful steps, that the Moon may be a world like ours — with mountains, deep valleys and wide plains, seas and dry land, air and weather, and perhaps inhabitants of its own. John Wilkins' The Discovery of a World in the Moon (London, 1638) — complete, in modern English, with the original engraved title page and Wilkins' own diagrams. PDF, 124 pages.
124 pages€6.79 - The Man in the Moone: The First Voyage to the Moon
One of the first voyages to the Moon in English: in 1638, five years after its author's death, London readers met Domingo Gonsales, a small and very proud Spanish gentleman who trains a flock of wild swans, builds an Engine they can pull through the air and becomes, in the story, the first flying man. Complete, in modern English, with all the original engravings. PDF, 75 pages.
75 pages€6.79 - The World in the Moon: Cyrano de Bergerac’s Comical Voyage
Cyrano de Bergerac's voyage to the Moon, one of the earliest in literature: a poet and duellist ties bottles of dew around himself to fly up, lands in Canada instead, and tries again in a machine lifted by rows of fireworks. Put into English in London in 1659; complete, in modern English, with the original frontispiece. PDF, 108 pages.
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