icaro-menippus

Updated: May 22, 2025

Yet while its fantasy looks back to Lucian's Icaro-Menippus, who flew to the moon by using the wing of a vulture and the wing of an eagle, its suggestion of the growing scientific temper of modern times makes it much more than mere fantasy.

Samuel Brunt - A Voyage to Cacklogallinia: With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country