Abstract
IT has so long been taught that the moon is a world on which nothing ever happens that it may come as a surprise to many to learn that the probability of frequent changes in the lunar surface is now seriously advocated. The author of this book, who is a well known American astronomer, is convinced that there are daily alterations over small areas which cannot be explained either by shifting shadows or varying librations, and therefore infers that there are real changes in the surface detail. The observations on which this conclusion is based are collected in the present volume, which also includes a more general account of our satellite, and contains the first complete photographic atlas which has yet been published.1
The Moon. A Summary of the Existing Knowledge of our Satellite, with a Complete Photographic Atlas.
By Wm. H. Pickering. Pp. xii + 102; 100 illustrations. (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1903.) Price 10 dollars net.
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The Moon . Nature 70, xi–xii (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/070xia0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/070xia0
