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Literature in the Age of Celestial Discovery

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    Chapter 1 Introduction: “Faln Systemes” and “Dead Chimæras”
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    Chapter 2 Heliocentrism, Plurality of Worlds and Ethics: Anton Francesco Doni and Giordano Bruno
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    Chapter 3 Early Modern Space Travel and the English Man in the Moon
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    Chapter 4 An English Renaissance Astronomy Club? Shakespeare, Observation and the Cosmos
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    Chapter 5 To the Moon: Discovering the Comic in the Cosmic on the Early Modern English Stage
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    Chapter 6 Sailing to the Moon: Francis Bacon, Francis Godwin and the First Science Fiction
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    Chapter 7 The Royal Society, Collective Vision and Samuel Butler’s “The Elephant in the Moon”
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    Chapter 8 “Cinthia’s Hero”: Edward Howard’s The Six days Adventure, or the New Utopia
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    Chapter 9 “A new discovery of a new world”: The Moon and America in Seventeenth-and Eighteenth-Century European Literature
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    Chapter 10 Astronomy, Prophecy and Imposture in Tyssot de Patot’s Voyages et avantures de Jaques Massé
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Chapter title
The Royal Society, Collective Vision and Samuel Butler’s “The Elephant in the Moon”
Chapter number 7
Book title
Literature in the Age of Celestial Discovery
Published by
Palgrave Macmillan, New York, January 2016
DOI 10.1007/978-1-137-56803-8_7
Book ISBNs
978-1-349-88743-9, 978-1-137-56803-8
Authors

J. Ereck Jarvis, Jarvis, J. Ereck

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