Moon Spots. Ii. The Man In The Moon : * "Moon Lore", by Timothy Harley, [1885], II. THE MAN IN THE MOON. We must not be misunderstood. By the man in the moon we do not mean any public tavern, or gin-palace, displaying that singular sign. The last inn of that name known to us in London stands in a narrow passage of that fashionable...
Moon Spots. I. Introduction : * "Moon Lore", by Timothy Harley, [1885], p. 1 MOON LORE 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...
Moon Superstitions. I. Introduction : * "Moon Lore", by Timothy Harley, [1885], p. 140 MOON SUPERSTITIONS. I. INTRODUCTION. Superstition may be defined as an extravagance of faith and fear: not what Ecclesiastes calls being "righteous overmuch," but religious reverence in excess. Some etymologists say that the word originally meant...
Moon Spots. Iii. The Woman In The Moon : * "Moon Lore", by Timothy Harley, [1885], III. THE WOMAN IN THE MOON. "O woman! lovely woman! nature made thee To temper man; we had been brutes without you. Angels are painted fair, to look like you: There's in you all that we believe of heaven Amazing brightness, purity, and truth, Eternal joy...
Moon Spots. Vi. Other Moon Myths : * "Moon Lore", by Timothy Harley, [1885], VI. OTHER MOON MYTHS. It is almost time that we should leave this lunar zoology; we will therefore merely present a few creatures which may be of service in a comparative anatomy of the whole subject, and then close the account. There is a story told...
Preface : * "Moon Lore", by Timothy Harley, [1885], p. xiii PREFACE THIS work is a contribution to light literature, and to the literature of light. Though a monograph, it is also a medley. The first part is mythological and mirthsome. It is the original nucleus around which the other parts have gathered...
Moon Worship. I. Introduction : * "Moon Lore", by Timothy Harley, [1885], p. 77 MOON WORSHIP. I. INTRODUCTION. WE have now to show that the moon has been in every age, and remains still, one of the principal objects of human worship. Even among certain nations credited with pure monotheism, it will be manifested that there w...
Quotations : * "Moon Lore", by Timothy Harley, [1885], "I beheld the moon walking in brightness."--"Job" xxxi. 26. "The moon and the stars, which Thou hast ordained."--"Psalm" viii. 3. Who is she that looketh forth, fair as the moon?"--"Solomon's Song" vi. 10. The precious things put forth by the mo...
Moon Superstitions. Ii. Lunar Fancies : * "Moon Lore", by Timothy Harley, [1885], II. LUNAR FANCIES. There are a few phosphorescent fancies about the moon, like "ignes fatui", "Dancing in murky night o'er fen and lake," which we may dispose of in a section by themselves. Those of them that are mythical are too evanescent to become...
Moon Spots. Iv. The Hare In The Moon : * "Moon Lore", by Timothy Harley, [1885], p. 60 IV. THE HARE IN THE MOON. When the moon is waxing, from about the eighth day to the full, it requires no very vivid imagination to descry on the westward side of the lunar disk a large patch very strikingly resembling a rabbit or hare. The oriental...
Moon Worship. Ii. The Moon Mostly A Male Deity : * "Moon Lore", by Timothy Harley, [1885], II. THE MOON MOSTLY A MALE DEITY. We have already in part pointed out that the moon has been considered as of the masculine gender; and have therefore but to travel a little farther afield to show that in the Aryan of India, in Egyptian, Arabian, Slavoni...
Untitled : * Written just eighty-four years before Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon, this is a Victorian collection of moon lore: myths, folklore, superstitions and just plain whimsy from all lands. Although contemporary astronomers had fairly well wrapped up the question of whether there was water and air...
Moon Superstitions. Iv. Lunar Influences : * "Moon Lore", by Timothy Harley, [1885], IV. LUNAR INFLUENCES. The superficies of the earth being twice seven times that of the moon, what an influence the earth must exercise over its satellite! We may be unable to describe this influence in all of its effects; but we may observe its existence...
Notes : * "Moon Lore", by Timothy Harley, [1885], 1 p. 263 "The Martyrs of Science", by Sir David Brewster, K.H., D.C.L. London, 1867, p. 21. 2 "The Marvels of the Heavens", by Camile Flammarion. London, 1870, p. 238. 3 "The Jest Book". Arranged by Mark Lemon. London, 1864, p. 310. 4 "Timon", a Play...
Moon Worship. Iii. The Moon A World Wide Deity : * "Moon Lore", by Timothy Harley, [1885], III. THE MOON A WORLD-WIDE DEITY. Anthropomorphism, or the representation of outward objects in the "form" of "man", wrought largely, as we have seen, in the manufacture of the man in the moon; it entered no less into the composition of the moon-god...
Appendix : * "Moon Lore", by Timothy Harley, [1885], p. 258 p. 259 APPENDIX. LITERATURE OF THE LUNAR MAN. Vide p. 8. 1. "The Man in the Moone". Telling Strange Fortunes. London, 1609. 2. "The Man in the Moone", discovering a world of Knavery under the Sunne; both in the "Parliament", the "Councel" of "State"...
Title Page : * "Moon Lore", by Timothy Harley, [1885], "From Domingo Gonsales" [A.D. 1638]. "See page" 46"> VOYAGING TO THE MOON. "From Domingo Gonsales" [A.D. 1638]. "See page" 46 MOON LORE BY THE REV. TIMOTHY HARLEY, F.R.A.S. "And when the clear moon, with its soothing influences, rises full in my view...
Moon Inhabitation. Moon Inhabitation : * "Moon Lore", by Timothy Harley, [1885], p. 227 MOON INHABITATION. SCIENCE having practically diminished the moon's distance, and rendered distinct its elevations and depressions, it is natural for " those obstinate questionings of sense and outward things " to urge the inquiry, "Is the mo...
Moon Worship. Iv. The Moon A Water Deity : * "Moon Lore", by Timothy Harley, [1885], IV. THE MOON A WATER-DEITY. We design this chapter to be the completion of moon-worship, and at the same time an anticipation of those lunary superstitions which are but scattered leaves from luniolatry, the parent tree. If the new moon, with its waxing...
Moon Superstitions. Iii. Lunar Eclipses : * "Moon Lore", by Timothy Harley, [1885], III. LUNAR ECLIPSES. All round the globe, from time immemorial, those periodic phenomena known as solar and lunar eclipses have been occasions of mental disquietude and superstitious alarm. Though now regarded as perfectly natural and regular, they have...
Moon Spots. V. The Toad In The Moon : * "Moon Lore", by Timothy Harley, [1885], p. 69 V. THE TOAD IN THE MOON. We owe an immense debt of gratitude and honour to the many enterprising and cultivated men who have gone into all parts of the earth and among all peoples to investigate human history and habit, mythology and religi...