A VOYAGE TO THE MOON
BY MONSIEUR
CYRANO DE BERGERAC
NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY and McCLURE Co
M. DCCC. XCIX.
CONTENTS
[Cyrano de Bergerac.]
[Note on the Translation.]
[The Translator to the Reader.]
[Title-page of Lovell's Translation of The Comical History of the States and Empires of the World of the Moon: London, 1687.]
[I.—Of how the Voyage was Conceived.]
[II.—Of how the Author set out, and where he first arrived.]
[III.—Of his Conversation with the Vice-Roy of New France; and of the system of this Universe.]
[IV.—Of how at last he set out again for the Moon, tho without his own Will.]
[V.—Of his Arrival there, and of the Beauty of that Country in which he fell.]
[VI.—Of a Youth whom he met there, and of their Conversation: what that country was, and the Inhabitants of it.]
[VII.—Being cast out from that Country, of the new Adventures which Befell him; and of the Demon of Socrates.]
[VIII.—Of the Languages of the People in the Moon; of the Manner of Feeding there, and Paying the Scot; and of how the Author was taken to Court.]
[IX.—Of the little Spaniard whom he met there, and of his quaint Wit; of Vacuum, Specific Weights, and sundry other Philosophical Matters.]
[X.—Where the Author comes in doubt, whether he be a Man, an Ape, or an Estridge; and of the Opinion of the Lunar Philosophers concerning Aristotle.]
[XI.—Of the Manner of making War in the Moon; and of how the Moon is not the Moon, nor the Earth the Earth.]
[XII.—Of a Philosophical Entertainment.]
[XIII.—Of the little Animals that make up our Life, and likewise cause our Diseases; and of the Disposition of the Towns in the Moon.]
[XIV.—Of the Original of All Things; of Atomes; and of the Operation of the Senses.]
[XV.—Of the Books in the Moon, and their Fashion; of Death, Burial, and Burning; of the Manner of telling the Time; and of Noses.]
[XVI.—Of Miracles; and of Curing by the Imagination.]
[XVII.—Of the Author's Return to the Earth.]