Johannes Kepler's story "The Dream," about a daimon-propelled journey to the moon and the strange and often horrifying beings one might find there, ends as dreams do. "And then I woke up." "When I had reached this point in my dream, a wind arose with the rattle of rain, disturbing my sleep and … [Read more...]
The Daimon, the Witch, and the Moon-Journey – “The Dream” of Johannes Kepler (Part 1)
A not-so-trivial trivia question: who was the astronomer whose mother was tried as a witch? And who blamed his own unpublished science-fiction story--regarded by some as the first science-fiction ever written--for getting her in trouble? Welcome to the wonderful world of the 16th and 17th … [Read more...]
