 Fontenelle's work was not cast polemically against the world views of either the Catholic Church or the Protestant churches, nor did it attract the attention, positive or negative, of theologians or prelates.The first English translation was compounded by John Glanvill in 1687, followed by another translation by Aphra Behn in 1688, under the title "A Discovery of New Worlds".Antiokh Kantemir translated it into Russian in 1730, although the translation was only published in a censored edition in 1740, due to objections from the Russian Orthodox Church.