Paris+ par Art Basel concludes highly successful debut edition
The inaugural edition of a href= http://www.artbasel.com target= _blank Paris+ par Art Basel /a brought together 156 premier galleries from 30 cou
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The Man on the Moon and Martian Canals
French writer Bernard de Fontenelle expressed the belief that there really was a man on the moon — and a whole civilisation to boot, if you please.
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Early Ideas About Extraterrestrial Life: What Might Inhabitants from Other Planets Look Like?
The great German astronomer Johannes Kepler wrote what might be the first science fiction novel, Somnium, which was published in 1634 (a few years after his death). As a serious scientist, he described the Moon and the sort of creatures that might live on it as accurately as the knowledge of the time allowed. The Moon was an incredibly alien world, he told his readers. Nights were 15 Earth days long “and dreadful with uninterrupted shadow”. The cold at night was more intense than anything...
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