The Man in the Moone
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The Man in the Moone is a book by the English divine and bishop Francis Godwin (1562–1633). Apparently written in the late 1620s and published posthumously in 1638 under the pseudonym Domingo Gonsales, it contains the account of a "voyage of utopian discovery". The book is notable for the role it played in what was called the "new astronomy," the branch of astronomy influenced especially by Nicolaus Copernicus. He is the only astronomer mentioned by name in the book, although it is also influenced by the theories of Johannes Kepler and William Gilbert Along with Kepler's Somnium sive opus posthumum de astronomia lunaris (1634), some critics have declared it one of the first works of science fiction.
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