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First of all he meets an inhabitant of Saturn who, being barely 1 mile tall, he considers a dwarf. He travels across space to our solar system. In this story the eponymous giant is an alien being from the star Sirius, an entity with the impressive dimensions of 25 miles height, and 8000 times the intellectual capacity of a human being. That’s not the remarkable thing (although, you know: I suppose in a sense it is) - though these moons, Phobos and Deimos, were not discovered until 1877:Īsaph Hall discovered Deimos on 12 August 1877 at about 07:48 UTC and Phobos on 18 August 1877, at the US Naval Observatory (the Old Naval Observatory in Foggy Bottom) in Washington, D.C., at about 09:14 GMT.īut here’s Micromégas, Voltaire’s 1752 ( maybe 1751: scholars aren’t sure when the first edition was published) conte philosophique.