3. There are many claimants to title of "first science fiction story: Plato, Lucien, Voltaire, Swift, Mary Shelley, Verne, Wells, etc.
14. Galileo made a strong impression on Milton, the fierce Protestant, himself later blind & crushed by counterrevolution
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15. Paradise Lost makes reference to many Biblical and historical figures but only one of Milton's contemporaries: Galileo.
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16 Last fact is from an unpublished article by Simon Bredin (I need to figure out how to do footnotes in tweets).
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