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Martyn Rhys Vaughan
- Dec 15, 2020
- 1 min
THE PLURALITY OF WORLDS
The next thinker to discuss the universe at large is Frenchman Bernard de Fontanelle; born in 1657 he lived to within a few weeks of his...
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Martyn Rhys Vaughan
- Dec 15, 2020
- 1 min
LIFE IS EVERYWHERE
We mentioned William Herschel (1738-1822)who discovered Uranus and was the first to suggest that the Milky Way was the densest part of a...
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Martyn Rhys Vaughan
- Dec 15, 2020
- 1 min
THINGS TO COME
The Irish Enlightenment scientist Robert Boyle (1627-91) is remembered for his work on gases and Boyle's Law is still important in...
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Martyn Rhys Vaughan
- Dec 15, 2020
- 1 min
THE FIRST TRIP TO URANUS
We are getting nearer to modern times but we must not overlook such people as M. Vivenair who in 1784 published "A Journey Lately...
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Martyn Rhys Vaughan
- Sep 23, 2020
- 2 min
GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
In our tour of the history of SF, we must not pass over "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathon Swift (1667-1745). Swift, who became something...
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Martyn Rhys Vaughan
- Sep 13, 2020
- 1 min
GIANTS IN THE EARTH
Moving ever closer to the modern age of SF we encounter Voltaire and his short work "Micromegas". It starts with the description of an...
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Martyn Rhys Vaughan
- Jun 22, 2020
- 1 min
A MORE MODERN UNIVERSE
Galileo's great contemporary was Johannes Kepler, who made vast strides in revealing the true nature of the universe. He came up with the...
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Martyn Rhys Vaughan
- Jun 16, 2020
- 1 min
THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE
As we have seen, Copernicanism remained a theory because there were strong scientific objections to it. What was needed was a new thinker...
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Martyn Rhys Vaughan
- Jun 12, 2020
- 1 min
OBJECTIONS TO COPERNICUS
However, it must not be thought that Copernicus's views swept Europe: there were many learned men who put up strong objections to...
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