Wan Hu

Wan Hu is a legendary Chinese mandarin, who according to legend, in 1500 wanted to go on a chair or a box kite, to which 47 rockets were fixed in the sky. With the firing of rockets it to have come to an explosion in the Wan Hu was killed. The lunar crater Wan -Hoo on the far side of the Moon is named after him.

The story was hawked 1929 The trip into space of Willy Ley in his book and became widespread. In an earlier version was called the Mandarin Wang Tu and lived around 2000 BCE The science historian and sinologist Joseph Needham suspected the origin of the legend in the time of chinoiserie.

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