[identity profile] ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com 2009-05-11 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I had either not known or forgotten that myself.

Completely OT, but if I had the chops for writing historicals in the appropriate era I'd have to write a secret history about how Swift actually knew that Mars had two moons.

People who change the shape of the skies should be remembered.

That they should. The namer of Vanth comes to mind.
(And I second [livejournal.com profile] nineweaving's wish that she live as long and as well as Venetia Phair.)