By means of this loadstone, the island is made to rise and fall. - Page 203 · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: By means of this loadstone, the island is made to rise and fall. - Page 203
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Laputa; England
Description: Here we see the technology used by Laputan scholars to move the island. 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:22062
Language: eng
Source Name: Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World
Parent Collection: 1865 London Morten; 1865 London Morten
Image: mta_22062_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Scholars in Literature; Tools; Floating Islands in Literature; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures