roduction 145
2 Lunar Fancies 152
3 Lunar Influences 175

IV _MOON INHABITATION_

_APPENDIX_ 259
_NOTES_ 263
_INDEX_ 285

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

1 Voyaging to the Moon _Frontispiece_
From Domingo Gonsales, 1638
2 The Man in the Moon 9
From Hone's _Facetiae and Miscellanies_, 1821.
Drawn by George Cruikshank.
3 "The Man in the Moon Drinks Claret" 12
(From the _Bagford Ballads_, ii, 119, Brit. Mus.)
4 "Who'll Smoak with the Man in the Moon?" 13
(Banks Collection in Brit. Mus.)
5 The Man in the Moon 22
From Ludwig Richter's _Der Familienshatz_, Leipzig, p. 25
6 Seal 28
In the _Archaeological Journal_ for March, 1848, p. 68
7 Representation of the Sabbath-Breaker in Gyffyn Church,
Near Conway 32
From Baring-Gould's _Curious Myths_
8 The Hare in the Moon 63
From Colin de Plancy's _Dictionnaire Infernal_

MOON SPOTS.

I. INTRODUCTION.

With the invention of the telescope came an epoch in human
history. To Hans Lippershey, a Dutch optician, is accorded the
honour of having constructed the first astronomical telescope, which
he made so early as the 2nd of October, 1608. Galileo, hearing of
this new wonder, set to work, and produced and improved
instrument, which he carried in triumph to Venice, where it
occasioned the intensest delight. Sir David Brewster tells us that
"the interest which the exhibition of the telescope excited at Venice
did not soon subside: Sirturi describes it as amounting to frenzy.
When he himself had succeeded in making one of these instruments,
he ascended the tower of St. Mark, where he might use it without
molestation. He was recognised, however, by a crowd in the street,
and such was the eagerness of their curiosity, that they took
possession of the wondrous tube, and detained the impatient
philosopher for several hours t