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    What Frenchmen wrote about two space odysseys to the moon and sun, 200 years before Jules Verne?

    Question #104036. Asked by shalomnow. (Mar 21 09 7:34 PM)


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    		Cyrano de Bergerac

    Influenced by Gassendi's theories and libertine philosophy, he wrote stories of imaginary journeys to the Moon and Sun, and satirized views, which saw humanity and the Earth as the center of creation.

    http://kirjasto.sci.fi/bergerac.htm

    Mar 21 09, 7:58 PM

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