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Renaissance to 19th century

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Destination 1: The Moon

Ancestors (1 superordinated path)

Descendants (at least 8 branches originate here)

  • Renaissance to 19th century 🔊
    Destination 1: The Moon
    • is_parent Somnium ·
      A witchcraft invocation within a book within a dream — nested speculation. Journey to the Moon seen through "Demon's" eyes. Somnium manuscript leaked: Kep
    • is_parent Gulliver’s Travels ·
      A voyage through impossible worlds to expose human absurdity. Each land a mirror — scale, reason, and custom turned upside down. Laputa’s scientists
    • is_parent Micromégas ·
      A cosmic satire on scale, knowledge, and human vanity. Blends Enlightenment rationalism with speculative cosmology. Micromégas — a giant from Siriu
    • is_parent The Man in the Moone
      One of the earliest space-travel tales in English literature. Domingo Gonsales reaches the Moon using trained geese. Describes lunar inhabitants and societies w
      • is_parent The Engine 🔒 ·
        "Having fastened about a dozen of my strongest Gansas unto a kinde of Engine I had framed, after they had raised me from the ground, they continued soaring upwa
    • is_parent L’An 2440 ·
      An Enlightenment dream of Paris six centuries in the future. Imagines social reform through reason, education, and moral progress. First modern utopia set in a
    • is_parent Activation ·
      Think about different means how You could put / get Your self on the surface of the moon.