Science Fiction History: 1694 A Voyage to the World of Cartesius

About the book A Voyage to the World of Cartesius by Gabriel Daniel written in 1694 and probably the first to use the term space in the modern sense.

--1694. Gabriel Daniel of France issued A Voyage to the World of Cartesius, a voyage which did not stop at the moon, but continued onward to "the Indefinate Spaces," "the Space beyond the Universe." This may have been the 1st use of "space" in the modern sense of "outer space."