This 2019 episode covers John Wilkins who planned out what he thought it would take for humans to travel to the moon In the 1600s. Wilkins managed to ride out a rocky time in England's history comfortably.
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12/23/23 • 27 min
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Stuff You Missed in History Class - SYMHC Classics: John Wilkins and His Moon Plans
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Happy Saturday. Not too long ago, we talked about John Wilkins and his efforts to devise a standard system of measurement so in early version of the metric system, and we mentioned that we had done a previous episode on a completely different project of his, which involved plans for a seventeenth century exploration of the Moon. So here that other episode is as Today's Saturday Classic. This one originally came out on August twenty sixth, twenty
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