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A pentalogy of novels by François Rabelais about two giants, Gargantua and his son Pantagruel, and their adventures. The work is a satire of the 16th century French society, culture, and religion, and introduces many new words and expressions.
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One of the first discoveries by NASA after sending initial probes through the Wormhole was likely Gargantua. The Lazarus Missions engaged in very little study of Gargantua, but NASA's interstellar relay determined its gravitational influence on its planetary system. The black hole Gargantua was used for a powered slingshot maneuver to facilitate Br...
The names of the neutron star and black hole most likely come from, The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel, a pentology of novels written in the 16th century by Francois Rabelais, featuring the adventures of two giants: Gargantua and his son Pantagruel. In the 2008 script, Pantagruel is actually a smaller black hole, with an icy planet orbiting it...
By calculations of Kip Thorne, Gargantua is about 100 million solar masses, placing it firmly as a supermassive black hole. Furthermore, it is an edge case in that it's somehow spun up to maximum minus 0.00000000000001 of the maximum, dragging space around it as it did so. Several of the visual effects were toned down severely from what it would ac...
Gargantua is a supermassive black hole in the movie Interstellar, named after a giant character in a novel by Francois Rabelais. It is used for slingshot maneuvers and to access the tesseract, a higher dimensional space-time.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, collective title of five comic novels by François Rabelais, published between 1532 and 1564. The novels present the comic and satiric story of the giant Gargantua and his son Pantagruel, and various companions, whose travels and adventures are a vehicle for ridicule of the.
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Aug 8, 2004 · prepared by Sue Asscher in 1998, from: "MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC. DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL", Translated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty. and Peter Antony Motteux.
- Rabelais, François, 1490?-1553?
- Motteux, Peter Anthony, 1660-1718
- Doré, Gustave, 1832-1883
Aug 8, 2004 · A classic satire by Francois Rabelais, translated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux. The book tells the stories of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel, two giants who live in a world of absurdity and humor.
French humanist François Rabelais wrote satirical attacks, most notably Pantagruel (1532) and Gargantua (1534), on medieval scholasticism and superstition. People historically regarded this major Renaissance doctor of fantasy, satire, the grotesque, bawdy jokes, and songs.
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A comprehensive study guide for Rabelais's satirical and comic novel about two giants and their adventures. Learn about the places, characters, themes, and sources of this classic work of Renaissance literature.
