Micromegas: A Comic Romance, Being a Severe Satire
upon the Philosophy, Ignorance, and Self-Conceit of Mankind(by Voltaire - excerpts 1762)
"On a planet revolving around the star Sirius there lived a young man of great intelligence, whose acquaintence I had the honor of making during his recent visit to our little anthill. He was called Micromegas, an appropriate name for great people. He had a stature of eight leagues, or 24,000 geometrical paces of five feet each, or 120,000 statute feet."
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"Micromegas, after plenty of turns and twists, arrived at the planet Saturn."
