![]() When they adapted to a normal diet, they lost their green colour. They spoke an unknown language, their clothing was unfamiliar, their skin was green, and they would eat only beans. This is a very odd story dating from the twelfth century about two children who suddenly appeared near the village of Woolpit in Suffolk. Here, he cites an example, the Green Children of Woolpit. He finds out that they maintain their Utopian existence by swapping any delinquent children for children from Earth. He finds that the people who live on the moon are tall Christian people who live in a kind of paradise. There is also wine that he says smells like horse piss. Suddenly, he feels hungry and opens his package to find that it contains dry leaves, goat’s hair and animal dung. Instead, the gansas carry him higher and higher, for twelve days, until he reaches the Moon. They promise to see him safely back to Spain if he promises to join them and serve a master who they will not name. On the first day he meets demons and wicked spirits who give him a package of food for his journey. Finding the natives hostile, he takes off again. Nearing Tenerife he is attacked by British ships and forced to land. Then, he decides to use the swans to fly him home. ![]() Eventually he harnesses some of them together so they can carry the weight of a man and flies around the island. There he finds a new variety of swan he calls a ‘gansa’ that he discovers can carry substantial weights. Ill health forces him to stop at St Helena. He leaves for his native Spain along with his servant Diego. Domingo has made a fortune in the East Indies but has to flee because he killed someone in a duel. It is about a man called Domingo Gonsales, the book’s supposed author. His ‘The Man in the Moone, or a Discourse of a Voyage Thither’ was published posthumously under an assumed name in 1638. His father was the bishop of Bath and Wells. It is ‘True History’ written by Lucian of Samosata some time in the second century.įrancis Godwin was born in 1562 and became Bishop of Hereford. So far, it has identified 1039 planets.Īs I have been thinking about space travel today and, as I casually mentioned yesterday a seventeenth century bishop who wrote a story about flying to the moon with some swans, I thought I’d take a closer look at that today, along with another story that I didn’t get chance to mention, which heavily influenced Cyrano de Bergerac‘s ‘Other Worlds’. If any of the stars it is looking at dim periodically, that might indicate that there is a planet passing in front of it. Its only instrument is a photometer which continually measures the brightness of 145,000 stars. It is focused on the Milky Way where there are billions of stars. Its purpose is to identify earth like planets orbiting other stars. On this day in 2009, NASA launched its Kepler space observatory.
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