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LUNAR theory has become recently an engrossing study for all, and is not to be classed such a useless abstraction as before. The peculiar behaviour of the autumn full moon in our high latitudes has always attracted the attention of the hunter and farmer, and given it the name of harvest or hunter's moon, according as it comes next before or after the equinox.
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GREENHILL, G. The Autumn Moon. Nature 100, 67–68 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/100067a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/100067a0