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Somnium presents a detailed imaginative description of how the Earth might look when viewed from the Moon, and is considered the first serious scientific treatise on lunar astronomy. Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov have referred to it as one of the earliest works of science fiction.
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May 31, 2024 · Somnium - A Dream by Johannes Kepler Forward. What follows is one of the most extraordinary fantasies I have ever encountered. It is a odd mixture of state of the art (circa 1609) mathematics and astronomy, picaresque adventure, and lays claim to being the very first science fiction story - beating Jules Verne by more than two centuries.
Somnium (Latin for "The Dream") is a fantasy written between 1620 and 1630 by Johannes Kepler in which a student of Tycho Brahe is transported to the Moon by occult forces. It presents a detailed imaginative description of how the earth might look when viewed from the moon, and is considered the first serious scientific treatise on lunar astronomy.
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The Somnium Project is a work-in-progress translation from Latin of one of the first science fiction stories, Somnium, written by the German astronomer & mathematician Johannes Kepler (b.1571 d.1630) New lines from the English translation by Tom Metcalfe are posted on Twitter @SomniumProject and the pages of this site
Dec 25, 2013 · Johannes Kepler wrote the Somnium in Latin between the 1590s and the 1630s. The Latin text is in now in the public domain but there is no public domain English text, because the English translations are still under copyright. In England, where Kepler's reputation was eclipsed by Newton, the Somnium was almost ignored, or read only in Latin. In ...
depiction of Moon. …remarkable work of science fiction, Somnium (“The Dream”), that describes the life of imagined inhabitants of the Moon and correctly portrays such facts as the high temperature of the Moon’s sunlit side.
