Bishop Francis Godwin wrote the first story in English of flight into space. His The Man in the Moon, 1638 had birds pull a raft through space to the moon. He anticipated Newton's theory of gravity and had the pull of the moon much lighter than that of the earth.
Lester del Ray, The World of Science Fiction, 1979
Lester del Ray, The World of Science Fiction, 1979
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