The Moon A Popular Treatise

Excerpt: ?The savant who originally demonstrated the earthly origin of the moon,? I replied, ?is not one to be easily led into extravagance by his imagination. It is Prof. George Darwin, the son of the famous author of the ?Origin of Species.? I shall not mention his mathematics, which are troublesome, but allow me to tell you, in a word, that his investigations have satisfied astronomers that the...