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John Wilkins and His 1640s Lunar Exploration Plans

2019-08-26 | 🔗

In the 1600s, John Wilkins was planning out what he thought it would take for humans to travel to the moon. Wilkins managed to ride out a rocky time in England’s historycomfortably, and was well known; he appears in the diaries of Samuel Pepys.

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