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Johannes Kepler, “Somnium”, 1634”.

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Johannes Kepler, “Somnium”, 1634 was  a science-fiction books by astronomer Johannes Kepler. He is famous in astronomy for the discovery of the “Three Laws of Planetary Motion”.  In contrast, “Omnium: The Dream”, 1634 is a hardly known science fiction novel.  His son Ludwig Kepler, published “Somnium: The Dream”, 1634 after the death of his father.  
The narrator of “Somnium” is an Icelandic Boy who learns from a Witch; that the Moon is an Island. The story is of how the Earth looks from the Moon.  This is an example of early science fiction with the hard-science, of Astronomy as its basis.

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