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I'm honestly having much more fun than expected reading those old books. It's like having a snapshot of the era's scientific knowledge, but also of the general mood, perspectives, theories, beliefs and ambitions they had back then.
The book exposes three theories for the origin of the Moon, none of which is the one that gathers consensus today.
Still reading old-ish science books, this time it's the 1971 Exploring the Planets. The extreme optimism of "with enough effort we can have humans on Mars in 10 years" aged pretty funny.
The scientific knowledge of the outer solar system is really unsurprisingly lacking, and obviously predates the Voyager probes. Though it's surprising that some of the things that were observed in the 1700s, such as transient lunar phenomena, or Venus ashen light, are still basically cryptids to this day.