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Who was Cyrano?

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Who was Cyrano?

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  1. Maira
    His two romances on trips to the moon and the sun (which usually appear in a single volume under the English title Voyages to the Moon and the Sun) were published posthumously in 1656 and 1662, respectively. In them, only a few years after Galileo had recanted the fact before the Inquisition, Cyrano described the orbit of the earth and other planets around the sun, and the weak gravitational field of the moon, and he proposed, among seven fanciful methods of interplanetary travel, a form of rocket propulsion. He also proposed, 300 years before the idea was borrowed by the writer Erich von Däniken, that the gods and mythological beings with whom earth's history is intertwined were actually travelers from outer space-in this case, inhabitants of the moon (though originally from the sun) who could change their shape at will.

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    The French author Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac, whom fate and Edmond Rostand's play have made immortal for the size of his nose and his superlative swordsmanship, should properly be remembered as a lively science-fiction writer, a competent playwright, an inquiring scholar, and also, perhaps, as a prophet.
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