risingstanding

risingstanding t1_izfauqo wrote

I'm interested in a related question: how did people's perception of what the moon even is, change across time? I'm aware of the idea in cartoons and such that people used to think it was cheese or whatever. But anyway, what kind of info is there on all this? Now, when I look up at the moon, I think of it as a place, I think of it as rock...what did people think before they knew about planets, and then being round? When did people think of the moon as a place you could go?

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