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THE public have what are called “views” on everything in the world and out of it. De Morgan well says that, on the question “whether there be volcanoes on the unseen side of the moon larger than those on our side”, the odds are, that the first comer has a pretty stiff opinion in three seconds. Does anyone believe that the moon is made of green cheese? One woman hailing from this enlightened neighbourhood told my wife that she thought the moon was made of blood! She was not a Latter-day Saint, either.
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INGLEBY, C. Apparent Size of the Moon. Nature 1, 556–557 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/001556b0
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