TY - BOOK AU - Verger,Fernand TI - Geography of imaginary and imagined cosmic travels PY - 2002///. N1 - 25 N2 - Long before the space age, some authors had thought about flying over the earth. Lucien Samosate, Johann Kepler, Francis Godwin, Cyrano de Bergerac had described imaginary cosmic travels from which men could observe the earth, before Edgar Allan Poe, Herbert George Wells, Jules Verne, Konstantin Edouardovitch Tsiolkovski, Alexis Tolstoï or Hermann Oberth were able to imagine space observation of our planet UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-hermes-la-revue-2002-2-page-37?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -