8. Subsequently, in book 8, Adam and the angel Raphael have a discussion of cosmology (which bores the hell out Eve).
18. Cosmological revolution overlapped with "Age of Discovery" -- exploration and conquest of "New Words" of the Americas.
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19. So Milton was living in a period where "new worlds" abounded, both in outer space and on other continents (new to Europeans).
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20. Milton was both intoxicated & scared by the possibilities of "new worlds." For if space aliens existed, what did they know of Christ?
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