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| | TIMELINE 18th CENTURY page of ULTIMATE SCIENCE FICTION WEB GUIDE |
 | | Willem Jacob van Gravesande was born in Hertsgenbosch, Holland, 26 Sep 1688. |
 | | 1784: While ensconced in the Bastille, the Marquis de Sade pens "Les 120 Journees de Sodome" [120 Days of Sodom], although an authoritative edition was not in print until 1931. |
 | | This was the first of his books, considered later to have been a handgrenade of modernism, so far ahead of its time as to gurantee him a lifetime of persecution. |
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