Wheels Within Wheels | Futility Closet
Incidentally, Lewis Carroll submitted two letters, but the Times didn’t print them. Perhaps it’s just as well — he was far ahead of everyone else: “I noticed for the first time the fact that though [the moon] only goes 13 times round the earth in the course of the year, it makes 14 revolutions round its own axis, the extra one being due to its motion round the sun.”
Why would Carroll think such a preposterous thing? Everybody knows that the moon is as flat as the earth!
