2017-06-17

Wilkins to the Moon

This is not the first time in recent memory an article has been published on his subject and documented on this blog. Here is another one:

The Man Who Planned A 17th Century Moon Landing (Curiosity)

This article links to the Atlas Obscura article I previously documented. In this article the faulty scientific assumptions of the time are outlined. Wilkins, nevertheless, was a visionary of the scientific revolution.

No comments: