A Voyage to the Moon
Cyrano de Bergerac
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Cyrano de Bergerac · 23 chapters
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I believe, that the Moon is a World like ours, to which this of ours serves likewise for a Moon."
"And why not?" said I instantly to my self.
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- Chapter I. Of how the Voyage was ConceivedSample
- Chapter II. Of how the Author set out, and where he first arrived
- Chapter III. Of his Conversation with the Vice-Roy of New France; and of the system of this Universe
- Chapter IV. Of how at last he set out again for the Moon, tho without his own Will
- Chapter V. Of his Arrival there, and of the Beauty of that Country in which he fell
- Chapter VI. Of a Youth whom he met there, and of their Conversation: what that country was, and the Inhabitants of it
- Chapter VII. Being cast out from that Country, of the new Adventures which Befell him; and of the Demon of Socrates
- Chapter VIII. Of the Languages of the People in the Moon; of the Manner of Feeding there, and Paying the Scot; and of how the Author was taken to Court
- Chapter IX. Of the Little Spaniard whom he met there, and of his quaint Wit; of Vacuum, Specific Weights, and sundry other Philosophical Matters
- Chapter X. Where the Author comes in doubt, whether he be a Man, an Ape, or an Estridge;[1] and of the Opinion of the Lunar Philosophers concerning Aristotle
- Chapter XI. Of the Manner of making War in the Moon; and of how the Moon is not the Moon, nor the Earth the Earth
- Chapter XII. Of a Philosophical Entertainment
- Chapter XIII. Of the little Animals that make up our Life, and likewise cause our Diseases; and of the Disposition of the Towns in the Moon
- Chapter XIV. Of the Original of All Things; of Atomes; and of the Operation of the Senses
- Chapter XV. Of the Books in the Moon, and their Fashion; of Death, Burial, and Burning; of the Manner of telling the Time; and of Noses
- Chapter XVI. Of Miracles; and of Curing by the Imagination
- Chapter XVII. Of the Author's Return to the Earth