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The Man in the Moone DDH ()


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 with utopian curiosity.

Reframes divine ascent as mechanical flight — from miracle to method.

Echoes Kepler’s *Somnium* but replaces demons with invention.

Marks the shift from celestial myth to speculative science fiction.

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 upward and upward, till I could no longer discern the Earth..."