philosophers Aristotle, Pythagoras, Plato, Galileo or Hobbes, who would be too “self-conceited” to agree & develops a telepathic relationship mediated by spirits with none other than... Cavendish! The Duchess & Empress become platonic lovers & travel to each other’s worlds. Like later sci-fi, 🧵

the Blazing World includes imagined tech & science which appears far-sighted, like the air-powered engines, flying machines, subs (which could remotely measure ocean depth) or the concept of an infinite universe. But, it also contains common contemporary 🧵