A Voyage to the Moon

About this eBook

Author

Cyrano de Bergerac, 1619-1655

Credits

Produced by Marc D'Hooghe (Images generously made available by the Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese

Subject

Science fiction, French -- Translations into English

Category

Text

eBook-No.

46547

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46547

Release Date

August 10, 2014

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.A VOYAGE TO THE MOON — BY MONSIEUR
2. 2.CYRANO DE BERGERAC — CYRANO DE BERGERAC. — NOTE ON THE TRANSLATION. — A VOYAGE TO THE MOON. — CHAPTER I. — Of how the Voyage was Conceived. — 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. — FINIS.

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