Intellectual Reference Point Restoration
Man on the Moon Viewing the Earth Was in the Service of the Copernican Hypothesis
Moon voyages became popular in the 1630s, their underlying inspiration Galileo’s telescope and the curiosity it piqued about the planet; but the way of reaching the new world on the moon was more important than the substance of an ideal society. Kepler’s Somnium of a man on the moon viewing the earth was in the service of the Copernican hypothesis.
Source: Utopian Thought in the Western World
