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The Moon: A Popular Treatise

by Garrett Putman Serviss

Serviss surveys the Moon as early twentieth-century astronomy understood it: its visible plains and mountains, the arguments over its origin, and the persistent question of whether it ever supported life. Keep its period assumptions beside what later observation corrected.

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Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text
Reading time
About 3 hr 40 min
Where to find it
The Selenite Reading Outpost, on the Moon
Edition
Project Gutenberg, eBook #66510. In the public domain in the United States.

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