Monday, October 11, 2004

Cromwell's moonshot: how one Jacobean scientist tried to kick off the space race





"The man behind the lunar mission was Dr John Wilkins, scientist, theologian and brother-in-law of Oliver Cromwell. In 1640, as a young man of 26, Dr Wilkins wrote a detailed description of the machinery needed to communicate and even trade with beings from another world."

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