JF Ptak Science Books Post 1790
In what he gives to thee, this Paradise
And thy faire Eve; Heav’n is for thee too high
To know what passes there; be lowlie wise:
Think onely what concernes thee and thy being;
Dream not of other Worlds, what Creatures there [ 175 ]
Live, in what state, condition or degree,
Contented that thus farr hath been reveal’d
Not of Earth onely but of highest Heav’n.
–J Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 8 (The Argument), line 175 ff
This is another in a series of posts (starting here with an introduction) on the great J.J. Grandville, a visionary artist of high imagination with good strong claims to being an 1840’s proto-Surealist. This small collection of flying machines appears in his Un Autre Monde, published 1844.
