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Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Samuel Brunt, (pseud.) A Voyage to Cacklogallinia: With
a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners
of that Country
(London, 1727). Cyrano de Bergerac, His-


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toire comique des Estats et Empires de la lune (Paris, 1656;
seven other editions 1659-87). Quotations in this article are
largely from The Comical History of the States and Empires
of the Worlds of the Moon and Sun... newly Englished
by A. Lovell
(London, 1687). Daniel Defoe, The Consoli-
dator: or Memoirs and Sundry Transactions from the World
in the Moon
(London, 1705). Bernard de Fontenelle, En-
tretiens sur la pluralité des mondes
(Paris, 1686). Galileo
Galilei, Sidereus Nuncius (Venetiis, 1610). Quotations in the
text are from The Sidereal Messenger of Galileo Galilei, ed.
previous hit E next hit. S. Carlos (London, 1880). Francis Godwin, The Man in
the Moone: or a Discourse of a Voyage thither. By Domingo
Gonsales, The Speedy Messenger
(London, 1638). Francis
Harding, “In artem volandi,” Musarum anglicanarum ana-
lecta,
(Oxford, 1692), I, 77-81. Ludwig Holberg, Nicolai
Klimii iter subterraneum novam telluris theoriam
(Hafniae
and Lipsiae, 1741). Quotations are from A Journey to the
World Underground. By Nicholaus Klimnius
(London, 1742).
Samuel Johnson, The Prince of Abissinia. A Tale in Two
Volumes
(London, 1759), the first edition of Rasselas. See
also J. previous hit E next hit. Hodgson, Doctor Johnson on Ballooning and Flight
(London, 1925). Johann Kepler, Joh. Keppleri mathematici
olim imperatorii somnium seu opus posthumus de astro-
nomia lunari
(Francofurti, 1634). Also in Joannis Kepleri as-
tronomi opera omnia,
Vol. VIII (Francofurti, 1858-71).
Eberhard Christian Kindermann, Die Geschwinde Reise auf
dem Lufft-Schiff nach der obern Welt
(1744). Athanasius
Kircher, Itinerarium exstaticum quo mundi opificium, id est,
coelestis expansi
(Romae, 1656). Francesco Lana, Prodromo
overo saggio di alcune inventioni nuove premesso all' Arte
Maestra
(Brescia, 1670). There is a modern translation in
Aeronautical Classics, No. 4 (London, 1910). John Milton,
Paradise Lost (1667, 1674), The Poems of John Milton, ed.
J. H. Hanford (New York, 1953). Jonathan Swift, Travels into
Several Remote Nations of the World.
In Four Parts. By
Lemuel Gulliver (London, 1726). François Marie Arouet de
Voltaire, Le Micromégas de M. De Voltaire (London, 1752).
Quotations are from the English translation in The Works
of Voltaire, with notes by Tobias Smollett,
Vol. III. (London,
1901). John Wilkins, A Discourse Concerning a New World
and Another Planet
(London, 1638). The work is often called
The Discovery of a New World, the title of the first book.
Bernard Zamagna, Navis aeria et elegiarum monobiblos
(Roma, 1768); republished with an English translation by
Mary B. McElwain, Smith College Classical Studies, No. 12
(Northampton, 1939).

Secondary Bibliography. J. previous hit E next hit. Hodgson, The History of
Aeronautics in Great Britain from the Earliest Times to the
Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century
(London, 1924).
Aldous Huxley, Literature and Science (London, 1963).
Francis Johnson, Astronomical Thought in Renaissance
England
(Baltimore, 1937). Alexandre Koyré, From the
Closed World to the Infinite Universe
(New York, 1958).
T. S. Kuhn, The Copernican Revolution (Cambridge, 1957).
Marjorie Nicolson, Voyages to the Moon (New York, 1948;
reprint, 1960); idem, Science and Imagination (Ithaca, 1956);
idem, The Breaking of the Circle (New York, 1960); idem,
with Nora M. Mohler, “Swift's 'Flying Island' in the 'Voyage
to Laputa,'” Annals of Science, 2 (October, 1937), 405-30.
H. H. Rhys, ed., Seventeenth Century Science and the Arts
(Princeton, 1961). Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the
Modern World
(New York, 1926; Cambridge, 1938; many
reprints).

MARJORIE HOPE NICOLSON

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