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How We Might Signal the Other Planets We Were Coming
Prof Rene Thevenin surveys historic and imagined methods of leaving Earth and reaching other worlds. He traces Cyrano de Bergerac and Jules Verne to early rocket ideas, critiques cannon shells and giant wheels, and notes practical obstacles to lunar travel and return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aimerican Weekly, Inc
Great Britain
Wan Hu
Cyrano de Bergeracy
Kostand
Gassendi
Royal Guards
Carbon de Castel-Jaloux
Prince de Conti
Cyrano de Bergernc
Arras
Fle
Cyrano
Earth
Himelfenlively
M. Cyrano
Jules Verne
Cyrano de Bergerac
Space
Firet
Everest