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A Trip to Venus (1897)

by John Munro

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Prof. John Munro (1849-1930) was the author of Heroes of the Telegraph (1891), The Story of Electricity (1896) and A Trip to Venus (1897). ""In plain English, at 4 a. m., a ray of light had been observed on the disc of the planet Mars in or near the ""terminator""; that is to say, the zone of twilight separating day from night. The news was doubly interesting to me, because a singular dream of ""Sunrise in the Moon"" had quickened my imagination as to the wonders of the universe beyond our little globe, and because of a never-to-be-forgotten experience of mine with an aged astronomer several y… (more)
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An interesting and instructive novel, which gives an imaginative account of the inhabitants of the planet Venus. It represents them as being truly civilized and highly cultured, and as being Fruitarians and Nature-lovers.
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The heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you while it displays its eternal harmony, and yet your eyes are fixed upon the earth alone. -- DANTE.
This truth within thy mind rehearse,
That in a boundless universe
Is boundless better, boundless worse.

Think you this mould of hopes and fears
Could find no statelier than his peers
In yonder hundred million spheres?
TENNYSON.
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Prof. John Munro (1849-1930) was the author of Heroes of the Telegraph (1891), The Story of Electricity (1896) and A Trip to Venus (1897). ""In plain English, at 4 a. m., a ray of light had been observed on the disc of the planet Mars in or near the ""terminator""; that is to say, the zone of twilight separating day from night. The news was doubly interesting to me, because a singular dream of ""Sunrise in the Moon"" had quickened my imagination as to the wonders of the universe beyond our little globe, and because of a never-to-be-forgotten experience of mine with an aged astronomer several y

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