Strapping on bottles of dew to rise with the morning sun, the narrator lands instead in New France and debates the system of the universe with its viceroy, then at last reaches the Moon, where he meets the Demon of Socrates, people who speak in music and dine on smells, and philosophers who think him an animal. The text is Archibald Lovell’s English version of 1687.
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