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Plutarch’s On the Face which Appears in the Moon, composed about 90 A.D., is the only surviving treaty from c1assieal antiquity especially devoted to lunar theory. Mainly conceived as a polemics against stoic doctrines (Stoics thought of the Moon as of a globe made of air and fire), this text conveys also rich information about other theories concerning, among other things, the material consistence of the Moon, its geological structure, the nature and source of its light, the relationships between Moon and Earth.
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Longo, O. (2001). Ancient Moons. In: Barbieri, C., Rampazzi, F. (eds) Earth-Moon Relationships. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0800-6_21
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