Francis Godwin
English clergyman, historian, and writer who became Bishop of Llandaff and later Bishop of Hereford; noted for the early science-fiction work The Man in the Moone (published posthumously in 1638) and for A Catalogue of the Bishops of England (1601).
Books
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1. The Man In The Moone
A Discourse of a Voyage Thither
A Spanish gentleman, stranded far from home, devises a flying machine drawn by trained birds and is accidentally borne to the Moon, where he discovers a peaceful, rational society with long lifespans, musical language, and unfamiliar natural phenomena. His travelogue contrasts lunar customs with those of Earth, blending wonder, satire, and scientific speculation as he learns their ways and attempts a perilous return.
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