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Elaine Hobby

Elaine Hobby is professor of 17th-Century Studies at Loughborough University.

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Picture of a flying machine, powered by geese, in Francis Godwin’s The Man in the Moone, 1657, one of the books read by the lunatic Doctor Baliardo in Aphra Behn’s play The Emperor of the Moon, 1687. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.

“This reading of Books is a pernicious thing”

Posted on April 13, 2021