[A diagram depicting the movement of Laputa] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A diagram depicting the movement of Laputa]
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Laputa; Balnibarbi; England
Description: Here we see a diagram showing the movement of the floating island of Laputa. The Emperor of Laputa could move the island over various parts of Balnibarbi – the land below Laputa. The Emperor would move the island to punish people on Balnibarbi so that Laputa would block the sun from Balnibarbi causing the crops to fail. If the Emperor felt so inclined, he could cause the island to drop onto Balnibarbi, but he had never done this for fear of damaging the adamantine bottom of Laputa.
Image Creator: T. Morten (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:22063
Language: eng
Source Name: Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World
Parent Collection: 1865 London Morten; 1865 London Morten
Image: mta_22063_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Floating Islands in Literature; Fictitious Characters; Fictional Works; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures; Gulliver