Twenty years later, Austrian astronomer Joseph von Littrow expanded on that idea, suggesting the excavation of huge trenches in the Sahara desert, which would be filled with kerosene and set ablaze.

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He had said that his coffin should be open, so he would have his face to the sun as his pyre was set ablaze.

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