Cyrano de Bergerac, “The Other World: The Comical History of the States and Empires of the World of the Moon”, 1657.
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Cyrano de Bergerac, “The Other World: The Comical History of the States and Empires of the World of the Moon”, 1657 was a science fiction satire novel. The scientific printing press of Regiomontanus in the 1470’s has established science publication. Dramatist, Cyrano de Bergerac used as his weapon-of-choice “humor”. The story Cyrano de Bergerac wrote inspired Jonathan Swift’s, “Gulliver’s Travels”, 1726 prose satire of science. Cyrano de Bergerac, narrative is of his travel to the Moon in an 1657-model year rocket ship. The inhabitants of Moon believe the Earth is the satellite of it (not the reverse orbital view of Earthlings). Cyrano de Bergerac is writing in 1657; but, rockets for travel to the Moon and back work to satirize science. The “genius of science” is the butt of Cyrano de Bergerac’s jokes. The television show “Big Bang Theory” uses similar satire of the protagonist doctor Sheldon Cooper, PhD for humor.
