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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:25am on 2004-10-14

"Partly the argument was religious. As well as being a scientist, Wilkins was a theologian, and the argument was that if God had made worlds then it's within divine providence to put beings on them." -- Allan Chapman, quoted in an article by Steve Connor in The Independent about a 17th Century (yes, seventeenth) proposal for Lunar exploration. (Thanks to Fred for the URL.)

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