“if it please Heaven that I return home safe to my Country, and give perfect Instructions how those almost incredible and impossible Acquirements may be imparted to the World. You shall then see Men flying in the Air, from one Place to another, you shall then be able to send Messages many hundred Miles in an Instant, and receive Answers immediately”
Quotes by Francis Godwin
“I found then by Experience, what no Philosopher ever dreamt of, namely, that those Things we call heavy do not fall towards the Center of the Earth as their natural Place, but are drawn by a secret Property of the Globe of the Earth, or rather something within it, as the Load-stone draweth Iron, which is within the Compass of its attractive Beams.”
Francis Godwin
Francis Godwin was an English historian, science fiction pioneer, and cleric who served as Bishop of Llandaff and Hereford. Born in 1562, he was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he developed a...