Exploring Johannes Kepler's 'Somnium' – one of the first science fiction stories
Sonus ipse vocis mihi occurrit ex recodatione nominum propriorum similiter sonantium historiae Scoticae, quae regio prospectat oceanum Islandicum.
The sound of this when spoken was suggested to me by recollecting names with similar sounds from the history of Scotland, a region which looks over the ocean [to] 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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