Moon in Early Modern Literature: From Biblical Paradise to Scientific Dystopia

The heliocentric revolution has been one of the most important turns of early modern science. With the dismissal of Earth from the central position of the universe, the other planets became possible habitable worlds and the stars other suns. The Moon, for example, became a mirror for earth, a reversed world in which writers such Kepler, Cyrano de Bergerac or Daniel Defoe displayed a satirical image of our European societies.