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- | [[Image:Le Voyage dans la lune.jpg|200px|thumb|right|''[[A Trip to the Moon]]'' ([[1902]]) [[Georges Méliès]]]] | ||
[[Image:La Fleur du marécage by Redon.jpg|thumb|200px|left|''[[La Fleur du marécage]]'' ([[1885]]) by [[Odilon Redon]]]] | [[Image:La Fleur du marécage by Redon.jpg|thumb|200px|left|''[[La Fleur du marécage]]'' ([[1885]]) by [[Odilon Redon]]]] | ||
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+ | The man in the [[moon]],<br> | ||
+ | Came tumbling down,<br> | ||
+ | And asked his way to [[Norwich]];<br> | ||
+ | He went by the south,<br> | ||
+ | And burned his mouth<br> | ||
+ | While supping cold plum [[porridge]].<br> | ||
+ | --[[Nursery rhyme]] | ||
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+ | [[Image:Le Voyage dans la lune.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Still from ''[[A Trip to the Moon]]'' (1902), a film by Georges Méliès]] | ||
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The [[Moon]] has been the [[subject]] of many [[works of art]] and literature and the inspiration for countless others. It is a [[motif]] in the [[visual arts]], the [[performing arts]], [[poetry]], [[prose]] and [[music]]. | The [[Moon]] has been the [[subject]] of many [[works of art]] and literature and the inspiration for countless others. It is a [[motif]] in the [[visual arts]], the [[performing arts]], [[poetry]], [[prose]] and [[music]]. | ||
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*[[Interstellar travel]] | *[[Interstellar travel]] | ||
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== In culture == | == In culture == | ||
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*''[[From the Earth to the Moon]]'' by Jules Verne | *''[[From the Earth to the Moon]]'' by Jules Verne | ||
*''[[The First Men in the Moon]]'' by H. G. Wells. | *''[[The First Men in the Moon]]'' by H. G. Wells. | ||
+ | *''[[Moon (film)]]'' | ||
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==Namesakes== | ==Namesakes== | ||
*''[[Bitter Moon]]'' | *''[[Bitter Moon]]'' | ||
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*''[[Paper Moon (film)]]'' | *''[[Paper Moon (film)]]'' | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
+ | *[[Lunar effect]] | ||
*[[Moonlight]] | *[[Moonlight]] | ||
+ | *[[Tide]] | ||
+ | *[[Mons Huygens]] | ||
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The Moon has been the subject of many works of art and literature and the inspiration for countless others. It is a motif in the visual arts, the performing arts, poetry, prose and music.
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Moon travel
In culture
The Moon's regular phases make it a very convenient timepiece, and the periods of its waxing and waning form the basis of many of the oldest calendars. Tally sticks, notched bones dating as far back as 20–30,000 years ago, are believed by some to mark the phases of the Moon.
The ~30-day month is an approximation of the lunar cycle. The English noun month and its cognates in other Germanic languages stem from Proto-Germanic *mǣnṓth-, which is connected to the above mentioned Proto-Germanic *mǣnōn, indicating the usage of a lunar calendar among the Germanic peoples (Germanic calendar) prior to the adoption of a solar calendar. The same Indo-European root as moon led, via Latin, to measure and menstrual, words which echo the Moon's importance to many ancient cultures in measuring time (see Latin mensis and Ancient Greek μήνας (mēnas), meaning "month").
The Moon has been the subject of many works of art and literature and the inspiration for countless others. It is a motif in the visual arts, the performing arts, poetry, prose and music. A 5,000-year-old rock carving at Knowth, Ireland, may represent the Moon, which would be the earliest depiction discovered. The contrast between the brighter highlands and darker maria create the patterns seen by different cultures as the Man in the Moon, the rabbit and the buffalo, among others. In many prehistoric and ancient cultures, the Moon was personified as a deity or other supernatural phenomenon, and astrological views of the Moon continue to be propagated today.
The Moon has a long association with insanity and irrationality; the words lunacy and lunatic (popular shortening loony) are derived from the Latin name for the Moon, Luna. Philosophers such as Aristotle and Pliny the Elder argued that the full moon induced insanity in susceptible individuals, believing that the brain, which is mostly water, must be affected by the Moon and its power over the tides, but the Moon's gravity is too slight to affect any single person. Even today, people insist that admissions to psychiatric hospitals, traffic accidents, homicides or suicides increase during a full moon, although there is no scientific evidence to support such claims.
In fiction
- A Trip to the Moon by Georges Méliès
- From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne
- The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells.
- Moon (film)
Namesakes
See also