I'm curious how long he thought the trip might take. The distance was accurately-enough known at the time, and it'd take decades at a walking pace with reasonab

I'm curious how long he thought the trip might take. The distance was accurately-enough known at the time, and it'd take decades at a walking pace with reasonable breaks. Another neat-sounding 17th-century work in this vein was by Huygens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Huygens#Cosmotheoros https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Huygens#Cosmotheoro... who seems to deserve a higher profile. Unlucky in being so overshadowed by Newton.