Pieter Harting 1 hr 22 min read

An English translation of the Dutch physician's celebrated glimpse of the year 2071.

This 1871 edition renders 'Dr. Dioscorides' (Pieter Harting)'s hugely popular 1870 forecast into English, its translator arguing that reasoning from analogy is the safe way to prophesy. A cultivated, science-minded utopian vision of two centuries hence, from the golden age of the future-forecast. Read it for a thoughtful Victorian projection of technology and society, in its English dress.

In its time

Published in 1870, during the 1870s, under the sea and around the moon.

Reading it

1 hr 22 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).