![]() “that by reason of feebleness and sluggishness, we are unable to attain to the upper surface of the air for if anyone should come to the top of the air or should get wings and fly up, he could lift his head above it and see, as fishes lift their heads out of the water and see the things in our world, so he would see things in that upper world and, if his nature were strong enough to bear the sight, he would recognize that that is the real heaven and the real light and the real earth. The translation of the text is as follows. A Case of Ancient Spaceflight?Ī quote by Socrates (470-399 BC) recorded in Phaedo is one source of such speculation. As a result, it is not surprising that some speculate that the ancient Greeks and other similarly advanced civilizations, such as ancient China and India, may have been even more advanced than is currently believed, even capable of ancient spaceflight. Aristarchus of Samos proposed an essentially heliocentric cosmology millennia before Copernicus, and Archytas is credited with inventing a steam-powered flying machine long before the Wright brothers invented their powered flying machine in 1903. The ancient Greeks are credited with having made many early advancements in science and mathematics which influenced later western civilization.
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