Laputa
Americannoun
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Together, the two set out to find Laputa, an island that Jonathan Swift described as floating above the earth.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2018
For instance, using Johannes Kepler's third law of planetary motion, Swift imagines that the people of his floating civilization of Laputa have discovered the two moons of Mars and their orbits.
From Nature ● Sep. 26, 2017
"Scientists at Laputa University have discovered that all cancer-related deaths have a 100% correlation with the consumption of water".
From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2016
An outsider can find a lot of interesting things in Borooah and Mangan's work, just as Gulliver did in Laputa.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 17, 2010
Steam did not overtake water and wind as a source of power until after 1830; in Swift’s Laputa, as in eighteenth-century England, steam power did not replace water power but supplemented it.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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