The comparison which may be made will depend upon the state of mind of the observer. All this has been done in direct opposition to the fact that whoever, for the first time, and without previous bias of mind, looks at the moon's surface through a powerful telescope, is puzzled to say what it is really like, or how to compare it with anything known to him. So far has this fancy been carried that the whole visible disc has been mapped out, and special names given to its various peculiarities, as though they had been carefully observed, and actually measured by a party of terrestrial ordnance surveyors. “ ASTRONOMERS have indulged in imagination to such a degree that the moon is now considered to be a solid, opaque spherical world, having mountains, valleys, lakes, or seas, volcanic craters, and other conditions analogous to the surface of the earth. On the topic of the Moon's appearance, in Earth Not a Globe by Samuel Birley Rowbotham we read the following: “ Simulated views of the Moon over one month, demonstrating librations in latitude and longitude. The Moon is thought to be spherical due to a slight rocking back and fourth over its monthly cycle called Lunar Liberation, where more than 50% of the lunar surface can be seen over time. It has a diameter of 32 miles and is several thousand miles above the surface of the earth.
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