Literature in the Age of Celestial Discovery

Judy Hayden is Professor of English at The University of Tampa, USA.

Introduction, 'Faln Systemes and Dead Chimæras'; Judy A. Hayden
1. Heliocentrism, Plurality of Worlds, and Ethics: Anton Francesco Doni and Giordano Bruno; Pietro Daniel Omodeo
2. Early Modern Space Travel and the English Man in the Moon; David Cressy
3. An English Renaissance Astronomy Club? Shakespeare, Observation,and the Cosmos; David H. Levy with Judy A. Hayden
4. To the Moon: Discovering the Comic in the Cosmic on the Early Modern English Stage; Gabrielle Sugar
5. Sailing to the Moon: Francis Bacon, Francis Godwin, and the First Science Fiction; Catherine Gimelli Martin
6. The Royal Society, Collective Vision, and Samuel Butler's 'The Elephant in the Moon'; J. Ereck Jarvis
7. 'Cinthia's Hero': Edward Howard's The Six days Adventure or the New Utopia; Judy A. Hayden
8. 'A new discovery of a new world': the Moon and America in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century European Literature; Brycchan Carey
9. Astronomy, Prophecy, and Imposture in Tyssot de Patot's Voyages et avantures de Jaques Massé; Daniel J. Worden