When we return to shore, jaded from all these natural wonders, think how we’ll look down on those pitiful land masses, those puny works of man! No, the civilized world won’t be good enough for us!
Conseil, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne
Posts tagged enlightenment.
Thomas Wright. An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe, 1750.
A spherical galaxy in cross-section.
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