The scientific travel; Cyrano de Bergerac

Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac(1619-1655), a French author certainly less known that has written also The other wo0rd of States and empire of moon, that is a fantastic romance, or very strange romance this is a history of a travel on the moon the fantasy is very life, because this romance has dated 1657. For to arrive on the moon the protagonist ties around his body the smalls bottle of dew and so he fly on the moon. The sources of this romance are may the book of de la casas, that shown the violence  on the American native, published on 1552; it is possible because  this step seems very near to the experience of the protagonist when he approaches to a hut and: “and I have  arrived very near when I seen surrounded me by group of wild men. Naturally today we know around the moon, more than Cyrano, although we haven’t touched its superficies, but they then known nothing, hence the wild men that disappear in a near forest is a translation of a earth landscape on the moon; but the return to reality of history is very immediate, because the traveler to some soldiers, that he met asked, he asks where is he, and they answered in the New French, this this Canada. The influence of Galileo Galilei(1564-1642) is evident in this step: “And the arguments that you have  for to hold, this is that the sun is immobile, since we see it move?” And the answer if for a scientific treatise: “Lord these are the motives. The first it is the common sense that leads us to believe that the sun is in the center of universe…”and this last noun is important because Galileo has denied that the sun was in center of universe; and Cyrano continues: “I say that earth need of light of sun, of warm it turn around the sun for to have energy necessary…”; it is Galileo, and the travel of Cyrano to high is alone the ironical fantasy for not the Canada, but for everybody that think something instead they haven’t nothing new about the new speculative science, Cyrano not travels in Canada, but, for metaphorical transfer, in an Europe again tied to the old theories, that emerges from this step: “You are constrict to take explication that are some intellige3nce that moves and lead your spheres”; it is Aristotle and his theory of the movement of universe: “ I say that we must find  on the earth the motive of this movement”; the past theories are overcome. The example of Galileo is in this step: “But if I am going to meet you to France, I will observe to you through my spyglass…”; Galileo was the first that  used the tool for to study the science, this is the telescope, that Cyrano calls spyglass, we must consider that the telescope the telescope of Galileo was in 1609, hence very rough , but it was already a reality to 1652. Cyrano must save also the Christian religion therefore he lands on the heaven, after eaten the apple, of Biblical memory; it is necessary he has satisfied both  the scientific side and also the religious side. The cunning of Cyrano is evident the description of heaven that has took from the reality and from the fantasy, because in the Bible isn’t a description of heaven.

Alessandro Lusana