Which English cleric wrote one of the first science fiction books in the 17th century?

The first edition of "Man in The Moone', (which was published both posthumously and pseudonymously) was Dr Francis Godwin (1562-1633), who wrote it probably about 1620. Godwin was a cleric. His father Thomas was bishop of Bath and Wells. Godwin married a daughter of the bishop of Exeter, three sons became clergymen, and his daughter married one.

The book was influential, which includes an understanding of Copernican astronomy and the theories of Galileo and Kepler. Hs description of the Lunar language is believed to have inspired Jonathan Swift's description of the Laputans in Gulliver's Travels (Swift was i a distant relative of Godwin's).

https://professorhedgehogsjournal.uk/2020/02/07/the-man-in-the-moone/