To: SunkenCiv
Has anyone ever explained how the descriptions of the two moons of Mars got into the book Gullivers Travels, years and years before they were ‘dicovered’ by astronomers?
19 posted on
10/28/2012 1:07:22 PM PDT by
Balding_Eagle
(Liberals, at their core, are aggressive & dangerous to everyone around them,)
To: Balding_Eagle
21 posted on
10/28/2012 1:35:43 PM PDT by
BenLurkin
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To: Balding_Eagle
Has anyone ever explained how the descriptions of the two moons of Mars got into the book Gullivers Travels, years and years before they were dicovered by astronomers? You think Gulliver's Travels is a book?
28 posted on
10/28/2012 1:53:30 PM PDT by
Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)
To: Balding_Eagle
The two moons were discovered by one astronomer, an American--Asaph Hall--in 1877, in Washington, D.C., in what was later Dick Cheney's house.
How the author of "Gulliver's Travels" knew about the moons, I don't know, but he was pretty swift.
To: Balding_Eagle; Talisker; Verginius Rufus; ExGeeEye
53 posted on
10/29/2012 5:57:14 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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