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IN the attractive paper on “The Autumn Moon” in NATURE of September 27 Sir Geo. Greenhill refers to the mistakes of poor common folks, and of poets and painters even, when they deal with things astronomical. He instances Coleridge's reported intention (in the first draft of “Christabel”) to seat a star within the horns of the crescent moon. The idea seems to have bitten “S. T. C.,” for in the “Ancient Mariner” we have the well-known lines:—
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MACDONALD, A. The Autumn Moon. Nature 100, 126–127 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/100126d0
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