The Strange Voyage and Adventures of Domingo Gonsales, to the World in the Moon Francis Godwin Author
by Francis Godwin
2021-04-10 18:30:04
The Strange Voyage and Adventures of Domingo Gonsales, to the World in the Moon Francis Godwin Author
by Francis Godwin
2021-04-10 18:30:04
The Man in the Moone is a book by the English divine and Church of England bishop Francis Godwin (1562–1633), describing a voyage of utopian discovery. Initially considered to be one of his early works, it is now generally thought to have been wri...
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The Man in the Moone is a book by the English divine and Church of England bishop Francis Godwin (1562–1633), describing a voyage of utopian discovery. Initially considered to be one of his early works, it is now generally thought to have been written in the late 1620s. It was first published posthumously in 1638 under the pseudonym of Domingo Gonsales. The work is notable for its role in what was called the new astronomy, the branch of astronomy influenced especially by Nicolaus Copernicus, the only astronomer mentioned by name, although the book also draws on the theories of Johannes Kepler and William Gilbert. Godwin's astronomical theories were greatly influenced by Galileo Galilei's Sidereus Nuncius (1610), but unlike Galileo, Godwin proposes that the dark spots on the Moon are seas, one of many parallels with Kepler's Somnium sive opus posthumum de astronomia lunaris of 1634.
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