05.11.2025
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, ti...
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.
