GUILLAUME CYR

Apr 18 2026SCIENCE

Rocket Dreams from the 1600s

Cyrano de Bergerac, a French writer of the 1600s, imagined rockets long before scientists or filmmakers did. In his 1657 story about a journey to the Moon, he described a machine that could lift a person into space by attaching fireworks to it. Although the idea was fanciful, he also tried to explai

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