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    Francis Godwin (1562–1633) was an English historian, science fiction author and priest, who was Bishop of Llandaff and of Hereford. He was the son of Thomas...
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  • Godwin (1756–1836), English political philosopher Godwin of Stavelot, English saint Francis Godwin (1562–1633), English bishop and historian Godwin (bishop)...
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    17th century, Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy and Bishop Francis Godwin's fantastical The Man in the Moone. Two approaches have dominated explanations...
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    Moone is a book by the English divine and Church of England bishop Francis Godwin (1562–1633), describing a "voyage of utopian discovery". Long considered...
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (UK: /ˈwʊlstənkrɑːft/; née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein;...
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    K2 (redirect from Mount Godwin-Austen)
    with 96 deaths during attempted climbs. Also occasionally known as Mount Godwin-Austen, other nicknames for K2 are The King of Mountains and The Mountaineers'...
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    exerted an immediate influence on many contemporary writers, including Francis Godwin and Mark Ridley. In De Magnete, Gilbert described many of his experiments...
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    tradition; another is Aiken Drum from Scotland. The Man in the Moone by Francis Godwin, published in 1638, is one of the earliest novels thought of as containing...
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    Walter Raleigh. His great-great-grandmother Margaret (Godwin) Swift was the sister of Francis Godwin, author of The Man in the Moone which influenced parts...
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    William Godwin (3 March 1756 – 7 April 1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents...
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  • his father Francis Godwin (1562-1633) and his grandfather Thomas Godwin were Church of England bishops, Thomas of Bath and Wells and Francis of Llandaff...
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    Ideas. 7 (32): 335–341. doi:10.2307/2708829. JSTOR 2708829. James, Francis Godwin (1979). "The Church of Ireland in the Early 18th Century". Historical...
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    thoughts, and similar speculations by Francis Bacon on flying to the Moon in his 1627 work Sylva sylvarum, Francis Godwin expanded on the idea in the 1638...
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    Wells). Francis Godwin, Bishop of Llandaff and of Hereford Robert Godwin (Parson) Matthew Godwin (Master of Music at Exeter Cathedral) Paul Godwin (Canon...
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  • Lodovico Zuccolo New Atlantis (1627) by Sir Francis Bacon The Man in the Moone (1638) by Francis Godwin A Description of the Famous Kingdom of Macaria...
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    1892), p. 120: A Complete History of England: Life of Queen Mary by Francis Godwin (London, 1706), p. 337 fn: Arnold (1978), p. 736: British Library Cotton...
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    British Monarchy 1685–1720. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-101652-8. James, Francis Godwin (1979). "The Church of Ireland in the Early 18th Century". Historical...
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  • politician Francis Goodwin (cricketer) (1866–1931), English cricketer Francis Godwin (1562–1633), an English historian, author, and bishop This disambiguation...
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  • 1960 American television special The Man in the Moone, a 1638 novel by Francis Godwin The Man in the Moon (novel), a 2002 novel by James Blaylock Endymion...
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    fiction, termed "proto SF" – such as novels by 17th-century writers Francis Godwin and Cyrano de Bergerac, and by astronomer Johannes Kepler – include...
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  • the Discovrse of a Voyage thither "by Domingo Gonsales" (actually by Francis Godwin, Bishop of Hereford (died 1633)), an early example of science fiction...
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    on a house roof and breaking his thigh bone (about 1590); but while Francis Godwin was writing his flying romance The Man in the Moone, Fausto Veranzio...
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    discover’d, has been seen as part of speculative fiction in the tradition of Francis Godwin, John Wilkins, and Cyrano de Bergerac. Huygens's work was fundamentally...
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    church seen today dates from a rebuilding of 1825–26 to the designs of Francis Godwin in the manner of John Soane and is the fourth church on the site, though...
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  • Francis Godwin (October 20, 1889 – August 5, 1959) was an American illustrator and comic strip artist, notable for his strip Connie and his book illustrations...
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    tutored Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales. He annotated for him a copy of Francis Godwin's De praesulibus Angliae (Of the rulers of England). Harington's grandson...
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  • Robert Fludd – Philosophia Moysaica Juan Rodriguez Freyle – El Carnero Francis Godwin, Bishop of Hereford (died 1633; as Domingo Gonsales) – The Man in the...
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    James, Francis Godwin (1956). North Country Bishop: A Biography of William Nicolson. Yale University Press. pp. 200–2. James, Francis Godwin (1956)....
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  • internationally exhibited artwork and film in which (inspired by a story by Francis Godwin) she raises a flock of geese and teaches them to become astronauts....
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    Mounslow First Lord of the Treasury Church of England titles Preceded by Francis Godwin Bishop of Hereford 1633 Succeeded by Godfrey Goodman Preceded by William...
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