One of his 80 works is a story in which a ship with a full crew encounters a gigantic waterspout that hurls it to the Moon.German astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), who put forth the astronomical laws that bear his name, also wrote a novel in which demons carry the hero to the Moon.In 1865, French novelist Jules Verne (1828-1905) proposed space travel in De la Terre ??? la Lune (From the Ear