Lunar craters Lunar craters Lunar craters are impact craters on Earth's Moon. The Moon's surface has many craters, almost all of which were formed by impacts. The word "crater" was adopted from the Greek word for vessel - (Κρατήρ a Greek vessel used to mix wine and water). Galileo built his first telescope in late 1609, and turned it to the Moon for the first time on November 30, 1609. He discovered that, contrary to general opinion at that time, the Moon was not a perfect sphere, but had both mountains and cup-like depressions. These were named craters by Schroeter (1791), extending
The Brueghel Moon The Brueghel Moon The Brueghel Moon is a 2007 magic realist novel by Georgian writer Tamaz Chiladze. Novel was published in 2015 in United States by Dalkey Archive Press. Tamaz Chiladze presents a work that blends the genres of post-modernism, magical realism, and science fiction. "The Brueghel Moon" is a novella about a psychiatrist, Levan, who has a former patient, Nunu, visit him, then he goes to a garden party, and gets involved with the wife of an ambassador, Ana-Maria. The narrative switches around, first person, second person, third person, back to first. The reader sees inside Levan and Nunu's