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Title: Kepler's Somnium : The Dream, or Posthumous Work on Lunar Astronomy by Edward Rosen ISBN: 0-486-43282-3 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 18 September, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Good Translation of Perhaps the First Science Fiction Work
Comment: Although technology did not develop to the extent that actual travel to the Moon could take place, for centuries people posited that it was theoretically possible and longed for the time when it would happen. When Galileo first broadcast his findings about the solar system in 1610, he sparked a flood of speculation about lunar flight. Johann Kepler, himself a pathbreaking astronomer, posthumously published a novel, "Somnium" (Dream) (1634), that recounted a dream of a supernatural voyage to the Moon in which the visitors encountered serpentine creatures. He also included much scientific information in the book, speculating on the difficulties of overcoming the Earth's gravitational field, the nature of the elliptical paths of planets, the problems of maintaining life in the vacuum of space, and the geographical features of the Moon. It is an interesting and useful and perhaps the first entry in the genre of science fiction.
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Title: Epitome of Copernican Astronomy & Harmonies of the World (Great Minds Series) by Johannes Kepler, Charles Glenn Wallis ISBN: 1573920363 Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: November, 1995 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Kepler by Max Caspar ISBN: 0486676056 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 08 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: New Worlds in the Cosmos : The Discovery of Exoplanets by Michel Mayor, Pierre-Yves Frei, Boud Roukema ISBN: 0521812070 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 25 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Kepler's Witch : An Astronomer's Discovery of Cosmic Order Amid Religious War, Political Intrigue, and the Heresy Trial of His Mother by James A. Connor ISBN: 0060522550 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 30 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Tycho & Kepler by Kitty Ferguson ISBN: 0802713904 Publisher: Walker & Co Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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