A link between science and literature: Johannes Kepler's Somnium
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https://doi.org/10.11606/khronos.v0i9.171495Keywords:
Science fiction, Somnium, Johannes Kepler, science and literatureAbstract
In the beginning of the modern age, new astronomical and physical concepts fostered ideas related to other worlds and extraterrestrial life, so that they provided an unprecedented territory for the scientific and literary imagination, namely, the new world on the Moon. In view of this, we choose Somnium, by Johannes Kepler, as a trace and evidence, in order to examine the connection between science and literature at the beginning of modernity. We seek to highlight how ideas related to the plurality and habitability of the worlds and the possibility of lunar and cosmic travel are explored in this intimate contact between science and literature. Our goal is to identify the persistence and metamorphosis of the remains in Kepler's work and, with this, to outline the primeval lines of a new literary genre, that is, science fiction. By proposing an exercise in historical hermeneutics on Somnium, we intend to take into account, at least in part, the transmissions and receptions of the theme as the trajectory of an idea in time.
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