NATS 1525 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mare Humorum, Deism, Philosophical Transactions Of The Royal Society
6 Apr 2017
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In this paper, herschel stated: the knowledge of the construction of the moon leads us insensibly to several consequences such as the great probability, not to say almost absolute certainty, of her being inhabited" argument from. Moreover it is perhaps not altogether so certain finish from slide: a study of unpublished lunar observations of herschel shows that he believed he had substantial evidence of life on the moon. Something i had never observed before, which i ascribe to the power and distinctness of my instrument, but which may perhaps be an optical fallacy i believe to perceive something which i immediately took to be a growing substance. For in that shape of building one hand will have the direct and the other half the reflected light of the sub. To understand this, one is reminded of a story published in the gentleman magazine, where a mr.
