Aliens from Johannes Kepler's Somnium (1634) (HI-RES FOR PATRONS)
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A vision inspired by the aliens portrayed in Johannes Kepler’s posthumous 1634 book Somnium (“The Dream”), arguably one of the first works of world-building science fiction. In this book; our moon, referred to as “the island of Levania”, is inhabited by various creatures that are hazily described as being snake-like; bird-like; and “with legs far superior to those of camels”. Some Levanians are also able to build and sail boats. I loosely interpreted them as a variants of a single polymorphic species, able to cross the surface of Levania rapidly via air, land or water in order to avoid the extreme shifts of temperature. The plants were a homage to the polyhedral shapes Kepler illustrated in his Harmonice Mundi (1619).
