Flourished England, circa 1566–1633
English Bishop Francis Godwin posthumously inspired the latter Renaissance with his tale of in situ “space exploration”: The Man in the Moone (1638).
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Nicholson, Marjorie Hope (1948). Voyages to the Moon. New York: MacMillan.
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(2007). Godwin, Francis. In: Hockey, T., et al. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_525
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