Man in the Moone, Francis Godwin 1620
Channel: Age of Enlightenment
Date: 2015-12-10

Francis Godwin (1562–1633) got his MA from Christ Church, Oxford, in 1583 and was an English historian, science fiction author and Bishop of Llandaff in Wales from 1601–1618. His book was originally titled Discourse of a Voyage thither, by Domingo Gonsales, written apparently some time in the 1620s.