Literature in the Age of Celestial Discovery

Chapter 1 Introduction: “Faln Systemes” and “Dead Chimæras”

Chapter 2 Heliocentrism, Plurality of Worlds and Ethics: Anton Francesco Doni and Giordano Bruno

Chapter 3 Early Modern Space Travel and the English Man in the Moon

Chapter 4 An English Renaissance Astronomy Club? Shakespeare, Observation and the Cosmos

Chapter 5 To the Moon: Discovering the Comic in the Cosmic on the Early Modern English Stage

Chapter 6 Sailing to the Moon: Francis Bacon, Francis Godwin and the First Science Fiction

Chapter 7 The Royal Society, Collective Vision and Samuel Butler’s “The Elephant in the Moon”

Chapter 8 “Cinthia’s Hero”: Edward Howard’s The Six days Adventure, or the New Utopia

Chapter 9 “A new discovery of a new world”: The Moon and America in Seventeenth-and Eighteenth-Century European Literature

Chapter 10 Astronomy, Prophecy and Imposture in Tyssot de Patot’s Voyages et avantures de Jaques Massé