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The Lunar World - Softcover

Josiah Crampton

 
9780371237120: The Lunar World

Synopsis

The Lunar World by Josiah Crampton. The book offers a popular, devotional exploration of the Moon, treating it as more than a celestial object. Structured as a narrative journey, it invites readers to travel in imagination to the lunar surface using a simple telescope-vehicle, and to survey features such as mountains, craters, and vast plains. Crampton discusses how the Moon's terrain resembles and differs from Earth, explains the nature of lunar seas, radiating craters like Tycho and Copernicus, and considers questions of atmosphere, water, and habitability. He surveys the Moon's motions, distances, mass, orbital dynamics, and its influence on tides, arguing that the Moon's arrangement and motions reveal intelligent design. The work also engages with the theme of science and religion, drawing on Paley's teleological arguments and the Bible's revelation to interpret cosmic order. Illustrated with plates and maps, it blends scientific observation with theological reflection on man's place in the universe.

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