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| Paper: |
The Enigmatic Face of the Moon |
| Volume: |
441, The Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena VI |
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31 |
| Authors: |
Galles, C. D.; Gallagher, C. J. |
| Abstract: |
Whilst Man's only way of observing the Moon was with the naked eye,
attempts at explaining the spots on her surface remained highly
speculative. The telescopic observation by Galileo of previously
unknown spots, differing from the earlier ones by their variability in
time, was to signify a radical change to the hereto medieval ideas on
the material composition of the Moon. And curiously enough, this new
scenario was a revindication of Plutarch's hypothesis construed
more than a millennium before. |
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