Most accounts of The Man in the Moone ignore the China episode. One exception is Paul Cornelius, Languages in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Imaginary Voyages (Geneva, Droz, 1965), which, for obvious reasons, confines discussion to language. The Man in the Moone became a popular source for "often extravagantly staged comic drama and opera", [62] including Aphra Behn's The Emperor of the Moon, a 1687 play "inspired by... the third edition of [ The Man in the Moone], and the English translation of Cyrano's work", [53] and Elkanah Settle 's The World in the Moon (1697). [63] Thomas D'Urfey 's Wonders in the Sun, or the Kingdom of the Birds (1706) was "really a sequel, starring Domingo and Diego". [62] Its popularity was not limited to English; a Dutch farce, Don Domingo Gonzales of de Man in de maan, formerly considered to have been written by Maria de Wilde, was published in 1755. [64] Gilbert, De magnete magnetisque corporibus, et de magno magnete tellure: physiologia nova , London, 1600, Book VI, chapters iii, iv, v. On Godwin and De magnete see Johnson, Astronomical Thought , op. cit. Stableford, Brian (1993). "Dystopias". In John Clute; Peter Nicholls (eds.). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2nded.). Orbit, London. pp.360–362. ISBN 1-85723-124-4. Godwin, Francis (2009), "The Man in the Moone: Or a Discourse of a Voyage Thither", in Poole, William (ed.), The Man in the Moone, Broadview, pp.65–134, ISBN 978-1-55111-896-3

Dziubinskyj, Aaron (2003), "The Birth of Science Fiction in Spanish America", Science Fiction Studies, 30 (1): 21–32, JSTOR 4241138 Simoson, Andrew J. (2007), "Pursuit Curves for the Man in the Moone", The College Mathematics Journal, 38 (5): 330–8, doi: 10.1080/07468342.2007.11922257, JSTOR 27646531, S2CID 122450423 Ebert, Roger (March 1, 1992). "Director pulls credit after airlines cut film". Chicago Sun-Times . Retrieved November 16, 2021. Dani and Court continue to go swimming during the hot sunny days and become good friends. The two agree to go swimming at night, since Court has too much work to do during the day. On one night, Dani and Court goof around in the water and almost reach a point where they are about to kiss. Court pushes Dani away and says she is a little girl that doesn't know what she's doing, and runs off home. a b c d Hutton, Sarah (2005), " The Man in the Moone and the New Astronomy: Godwin, Gilbert, Kepler" (PDF), Études Épistémè, 7: 3–13, archived from the original (PDF) on 26 August 2011Jules Verne was publicly hostile to Wells's novel, mainly due to Wells having his characters go to the Moon via a totally fictional creation of an anti-gravitational material rather than the actual use of technology. [21] See also [ edit ] The Trants' old friend turns out to be a widow, Mrs. Foster, with her three sons Court, Dennis, and Rob. When Dani realizes who Court is, the two dislike each other. When Dani's father Matthew tells Dani to accompany Court into town for groceries, Dani and Court drive into town and start to get along. Dani develops a crush on Court. Ibid ., II, xiv and xviii. Cf. I, xxii, p. 65, «Luna enim sua habet circa globum effluvia materiala quemadmodum terra», and II, xix, p. 186, «Luna magnetice alligature terrae». William Poole, in his 2009 edition of The Man in the Moone, provides additional evidence for a later dating. Godwin, he argues, most likely got his knowledge of the Jesuit mission in China (founded in 1601) from a 1625 edition of Samuel Purchas 's Purchas his Pilgrimage. This book contains a redaction from Nicolas Trigault's De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas suscepta ab Societate Jesu (1615) ("Concerning the Christian expedition to China undertaken by the Society of Jesus"), itself the redaction of a manuscript by the Jesuit priest Matteo Ricci. [23] Poole also sees the influence of Robert Burton, who in the second volume of The Anatomy of Melancholy had speculated on gaining astronomical knowledge through telescopic observation (citing Galileo) or from space travel (Lucian). Appearing for the first time in the 1628 edition of the Anatomy is a section on planetary periods, which gives a period for Mars of three years– had Godwin used William Gilbert's De Magnete (1600) for this detail he would have found a Martian period of two years. [24] Finally, Poole points to what he calls a "genetic debt": while details on for instance the Martian period could have come from a few other sources, Burton and Godwin are the only two writers of the time to combine an interest in alien life with the green children of Woolpit, from a 12th-century account of two mysterious green children found in Suffolk. [25] Poole sees this reference as strong evidence for Godwin's reliance on Burton. [26]

A Trip to the Moon (1902) was released one year after the publication of Wells's book. Some film historians, most notably Georges Sadoul, have regarded the film as a combination of two Jules Verne novels ( From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon) plus adventures on the Moon taken from Wells's book. More recent scholarship, however, suggests that A Trip to the Moon draws on a wider variety of source materials, and it is unclear to what extent its filmmaker was familiar with Wells. [16] The Man in the Moon marked the film debut of then 14-year-old Reese Witherspoon. Director Mulligan commented that casting her in the role of Dani was: In Chinese mythology, the goddess Chang'e is stranded upon the Moon after consuming a double dose of an immortality potion. In some versions of the myth, she is accompanied by Yu Tu, a Moon rabbit. [8] Another mythology tells the story of Wu Gang, a man on the Moon who is trying to cut down a tree that always regrows. [9] Bacon, The Advancement of Learning , I,v,7. The first edition of De mundo used a text prepared from (...) Wolfson, Elliot R. "The Face of Jacob in the Moon" in The Seductiveness of Jewish Myth: Challenge or Response? edited by S. Daniel Breslauer, Albany NY; SUNY Press, 1997

The First Men in the Moon, Ch. 19. The unnamed narrator of The War of the Worlds experiences a similar sense of self-alienation. Godwin, Francis (1768), The Strange Voyage and Adventures of Domingo Gonsales, to the World in the Moon... With a Description of the Pike of Teneriff, as Travelled up by Some English Merchants (2nded.), John Lever In the Northern Hemisphere, a common Western perception of the face has it that the figure's eyes are Mare Imbrium and Mare Serenitatis, its nose is Sinus Aestuum, and its open mouth is Mare Nubium and Mare Cognitum. [20] This particular human face can also be seen in tropical regions on both sides of the equator. However, the Moon orientation associated with the face is observed less frequently—and eventually not at all—as one moves toward the South Pole.

For a seventeenth-century summary of some of the variants of Copernicanism, see Burton’s, «Digression of Air», in Anatomy , op. cit., p. 427. One of Godwin's sources for his Lunar language was Trigault's De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas. [48] Gonsales provides two examples of spoken phrases, written down in a cipher later explained by John Wilkins in Mercury, or The Secret and Swift Messenger (1641). [50] Trigault's account of the Chinese language gave Godwin the idea of assigning tonality to the Lunar language, and of appreciating it in the language spoken by the Chinese mandarins Gonsales encounters after his return to Earth. Gonsales claims that in contrast to the multitude of languages in China (making their speakers mutually unintelligible), the mandarins' language is universal by virtue of tonality (he suppresses it in the other varieties of Chinese). Thus the mandarins are able to maintain a cultural and spiritual superiority resembling that of the Lunar upper class, which is to be placed in contrast with the variety of languages spoken in a fractured and morally degenerate Europe and elsewhere. [48] Knowlson argues that using the term "language" is overstating the case, and that cipher is the proper term: "In spite of Godwin's claims, this musical 'language' is not in fact a language at all, but simply a cipher in which the letters of an existing language may be transcribed". [22] He suggests Godwin's source may have been a book by Joan Baptista Porta, whose De occultis literarum notis (1606) [j] contains "an exact description of the method he was to adopt". [22] Genre [ edit ] a b Seters, W. H. van (1952–1954), "De nederlandse uitgaven van The Man in the Moone", Het Boek, 31: 157–72 Manuel, Frank E.; Manuel, Fritzie P. (1979), Utopian Thought in the Western World, Harvard University Press, ISBN 978-0-674-93185-5 My references are to the English translation of Kepler’s Dream with the full text and notes of the Somnium, sive astronomia lunaris , translated by P. F. Kirkwood and with an introduction by J. Lear (Berkeley and Los Angeles, UCLA Press, 1965). On the shortcomings of this version, especially the interpretation, see the review by D. P. Walker in The New York Review of Books , 7, 22 Sept. 1966, pp. 10-12. For an academically superior version, see E. Rosen, Kepler’s Somnium. The Dream, or Posthumous Work on Lunar Astronomy , London, Madison, Winsconsin University Press, 1967. Rosen suggests that the Somnium derives from an unpublished Tübingen dissertation of Kepler’s: see Appendix C and Introduction. The Somnium was probably composed in 1609. Kepler added extensive notes to the published version. See also, M. H. Nicolson, «Kepler, the Somnium and John Donne» in Science and Imagination , and Rosen, Kepler’s Somnium , Appendix E. Also D. H. Menzel, «Kepler’s Place in Science Fiction», in Kepler, Four Hundred Years. Proceedings of Conferences held in Honour of Johannes Kepler , ed. A. and P. Beer, Oxford, New York, etc., Oxford, New York, Pergamon Press, 1974, pp. 895-904.

Wells's work shows a persistent anti-religious bent, from the curate in War of the Worlds, a disgusting caricature, to favoring the idea of persecution and complete destruction of organised religion in The Shape of things to Come. One need not be a religious believer oneself to decry this bias as a serious flaw" (Dr. Robert Fields, Sociological Themes in Science Fiction, chapter 4).