MEASURING THE MOON.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 19, 14 May 1914, Page 4

MEASURING THE MOON.

Astronomers will await with interest details of the “experiment” carried out by Professor Stiattesi, at Bolonga, by which he claims to have demonstrated that the moon is ovalshaped. The moon is more easily measured than any other heavenly body, but though it has been measured thousands of times, no difference has been detected between its polar and equatorial diameters. A clergyman recently put forward the theory that the side of the moon always turned away from the earth is of tiie same size and shape as the great pyramid, which, according to Kevolutions, forms the “New Jerusalem.” Eventually, so asserts the author of the theory, the moon will fall on the earth, and the hemisphere turned earthwards will bury itself in our planet, while the pyramidal New Jerusalem will project above the rack and ruin of the elements as the Celestial City, where the faithful are to spend eternity. This remarkable lunar theory has been published with a preface by the Bishop of Exeter.