Friday, January 15, 2016

Stray Leaves from the Book of Nature (1859)


So this is a strange post for you all. Back there in the 1800s there were science philosophers.  I was struck by this passage written at the time about "A Trip to the Moon." Based in science but with a eye towards imagination and poetry. So imagine you have a telescope and a little science and want to expand people's ideas of what might be possible.

The whole book (because it is out of copyright) is online here: 
http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100166507

So poetic but watch how he tries to bring you to the surface of the moon.



The most popular theory of where craters came from at the time was volcanic actions



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