Exploring Johannes Kepler's 'Somnium' – one of the first science fiction stories
Duracotus studies with the students of the astronomer Tycho Brahe at the Uraniborg observatory on the island of Hven
After studying at Uraniborg for years, Duracotus returns to Iceland and his mother Fiolxhilde, who thought him dead
Fiolxhilde reveals the occult art of conversing & travelling with certain ‘wise spirits’ encountered in Iceland
The Somnium Project is an ongoing effort to fully translate into English the Somnium, which Kepler wrote in Latin between 1600 and his death in 1630.
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The Somnium Project 
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