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- ↑ Galileo Galilei (1974). Two New Sciences . Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 0-299-06404-2.
- ↑ Poole, William (2010). "Kepler's Somnium and Francis Godwin's The Man in the Moone: Births of Science-Fiction 1593–1638". In Houston, Chloë (ed.). New Worlds Reflected: Travel and Utopia in the Early Modern Period. Farnham: Ashgate. pp. 57–70. ISBN 978-0-7546-6647-9.