'MOON: Inspires melancholy. Is it perhaps inhabited?'
- Gustave Flaubert, Dictionary of Received Ideas, 1870s
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| 'This Plain Would Be Nothing But an Immense Ossuary' by Émile-Antoine Bayard, 1870, illustration for Jules Verne's From The Earth to the Moon. |
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From 'Influence of the Moon on Plants', Border Watch (Mount Gambier, South Australia) Saturday 9 April 1870, page 2. I am not responsible for the typo. |
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| 'The Moon shines forth with peculiar brilliancy'. James Glaisher, Camille Flammarion, W. de Fonvielle, and Gaston Tissandier, 1871 Travels in the Air (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott).  From 'Is Our Moon Inhabited?', Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter (NSW), Saturday 16 September 1871, page 4 |
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