How The Victorians Took Us To The Moon
Patented: History of Inventions
Did the Victorians Take Us to the Moon?
The author has a new book out called How the Victorians Took Us to the Moon. The title is intriguing as you think, well wait a sec, did the Victorians take us to the moon? They kind of did in a way as you go into a new book which is wonderful. I thought maybe what we could do is just before we start getting into a little bit of context, what do we mean by Victorians? That kind of Victorian view that they were different both from their predecessors and obviously from all the other people who share the world with them. And that very very particular notion of progress which we kind of take for granted today.
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