C LIT228 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Adelbert Von Chamisso, Johan Herman Wessel, H. G. Wells

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Comparative Literature
• Course: C LIT228
• Professor: Irene Sywenky

Document Summary

C lit 228 october 26, 2016 : sf and wells. Early scientific knowledge as an impetus toward an imaginative conceptualization of science and expanding the limits of human cognition. Xenophanes of colophon 500 bc: (cid:862)the sta(cid:396)s (cid:272)o(cid:373)e i(cid:374)to (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g f(cid:396)o(cid:373) (cid:271)u(cid:396)(cid:374)i(cid:374)g (cid:272)louds(cid:863, the su(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:374)sists of (cid:271)u(cid:396)(cid:374)i(cid:374)g (cid:272)louds a (cid:373)ass of little fi(cid:396)es(cid:863) Anaxagoras 500-428bc: beginnings of the atomic theory. Ptolemy 2nd c. ad: (cid:862)co(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:396)(cid:374)i(cid:374)g the fa(cid:272)e i(cid:374) the o(cid:396)(cid:271) of the moo(cid:374)(cid:863, greek astronomer and geographer of alexandria, geocentric model of the solar system, computation system. Lucian of samosata 120-200ad: true story (vera historia), first translated into english in 1634 and considered the first example of early science fiction (space travel, space wars, colonization, aliens) Surprisingly modern and quoted in many anthologies. Frances godwin (1562-1633) man in the moone (1638) Tommasso campanella city of the sun (1602) Francis bacon the new atlantis (1627) Cyrano de bergerac voyages to the moon and sun (1647)